Book #22215

Prisons We Choose To Live Inside - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Doris Lessing
Book #22215 Prisons We Choose To Live Inside - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Doris Lessing.
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986.
ISBN: 0224024663

A charming first Impression of the first edition in just about Fine condition with very slightly yellowed pages edges as is common with this title, in like, lightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Dedicated to fellow author Greg Gatenby and SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. From Gatenby's library with his signature on the fly leaf. An attractive association.

Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing's attempt to explain "why human beings continue to make the same mistakes. This original and important work of Lessing underlines the necessity to retain an independent frame of mind, to fight received opinion and to resist the general drift into apathy". (from the dustjacket) ; 8vo; 95, [1] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $100.00

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Author Bio

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing, born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, October 22, 1919 is a British writer and author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lessing is the oldest person ever to win this award. Doris Lessing passed away on November 17, 2013.

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