The Golden Notebook.

Signed copy. Signed by the author to the title page. A very good copy, jacket extremities lightly worn and chipped, short tear to the top left corner of the front panel. Light offsetting to free endpapers.

'The publication of The Golden Notebook in 1962 established Lessing as a major writer of her time. In it Lessing experimented with structure, her writer protagonist Anna keeping four notebooks, trying to separate out the chaos of events in both public and private contemporary life. Nothing, Anna comes to realize, is solely personal; at any given time all are affected by the world in which they live while also, collectively, influencing the world. Yet, despite the many issues woven through the book, its exploration of women's concerns made it a flagship for the new wave feminism of the late 1960s and 1970s' (ODNB).

First edition, signed by the author; 8vo; original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket.