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Retreat to Innocence.

Stock Code 113215

London, Michael Joseph, 1956

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Signed by the author. A lovely copy of an early Lessing novel, published in the middle of writing her Children of Violence series. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page.

First edition, first impression, signed by the author; 8vo; mild offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, white lettering to spine, with the unclipped dust-jacket by Belcher, minor edge-wear, else a fine copy.

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Retreat to Innocence.

LESSING, Doris.

Stock code: 113215

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