Search Results: retreat to innocence by doris lessing

UsedGood. Signs of major wear on cover/spine. Pages in good condition.

Liberty Book Club, 1959-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1.0000 in x 7.7992 in x 5.1181 in.

Uk: Michael Joseph. Good. Hardcover. 1956. 333 pages. lacks front fly -d/j edge wear & lacks small pieces .

Michael Joseph, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Internally clean and tightly bound. Minor foxing and a price notation. Hinges have started.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Michael Joseph. 1956. 1st ed., first impression. 8vo, pp. 333, offsetting eps., light foxing edges and rear eps., orig cl bds., bottom edge slightly rubbed otherwise good, in d.j two small tears top front edge but intact, small piece lost head of spine, few marks rear, protected Novel of a romance between a young girl and a middle-aged man 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Michael Joseph Ltd , 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Publication of 334 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing around the block of the book, the text remains bright and clear. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: M Joseph. Dustwrapper chipped to base of spine - approx 1" . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956.

London: Michael Joseph, 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First US edition. Near fine in slightly faded wrappers.

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this early novel from Lessing. Near fine in black buckram with white lettering on spine remaining bright. Near fine jacket shows some wear and very shallow chippinng/rubbing at spine ends and corners and light toning, else fine. Original price of 15s in tact.

London: Michael Joseph. 16mo (printer's signatures each 16 leaves). No inscriptions. The dust jacket has some large chips at the top of the spine, marks on the back cover, and minor wear elsewhere; not price clipped, now protected by a removeable cover of archival quality. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. 1956.

Hardback. 1956. Sl. browning to end-papers, else book very good. Dust jacket sl. worn at head, else very good. .

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 334pp., Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscribed second impression of a novel almost never found signed because it was repudiated on political grounds by its Nobel Prize winning author. In dark ink on the first free endpaper is written: 'X/ To the Youth/ Doris Lessing'. Who is the youth and what was his relationship with Lessing? Answers came there none. The book is near fine in black cloth, a second impression from two months after the first. The jacket is not price-clipped, bright with just a little rubbing to top and tail of the spine and browning to the lower printed panel. Set in austere post-war London this novel, a much better effort is claimed by its detractors, tells the story of an affair between Julia and a Czech emigre communist, Jan Brod. Lessing later rejected the novel and refused to have it reprinted because she had chosen to end the novel with Brod's loyal return to communist Eastern Europe which she came to judge as the wrong call in the light of the invasion of… Read More