LESSING, Doris.

The Summer Before the Dark.

Name: The Summer Before the Dark.
Brand: LESSING, Doris.
SKU: 106241
Price: 641.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 106241

London, Jonathan Cape, 1973.

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presentation copy

With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'Clive Sinclair Sincerely Doris Lessing 23rd May 1980'. Clive Sinclair was an author and fellow winner of the Somerset Maugham Award which Lessing had won some two decades earlier.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's grey boards, titles to spine gilt, grey topstain, cream endpapers, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the price-clipped dust jacket.

Provenance

Provenance: Clive Sinclair (author's presentation inscription).

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