Author: LESSING, DORIS MAY
Title: Under My Skin My Autobiography to 1949
Description: New York: Harpercollins, 1994. 1st US Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060171502. This is the first US trade edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but h as some beginning bumping and nicking to the bottom spine end. "At the age of fifteen, Lessing began to sell her stories to magazines. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. The work that gained her international attention, The Golden Notebook, was published in 1962. By the time of her death, she had published more than 50 novels, some under a pseudonym. In 1982 Lessing wrote two novels under the literary pseudonym Jane Somers to show the difficulty new authors face in trying to get their work printed. The novels were rejected by Lessing's UK publisher but later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour was published in Britain and the US in 1983 and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984, both as written by Jane Somers." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0060171502 Autobiography Doris Lessing Authors Author Biography England South Africa
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Title: Under My Skin My Autobiography to 1949
Description: New York: Harpercollins, 1994. 1st US Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060171502. This is the first US trade edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but h as some beginning bumping and nicking to the bottom spine end. "At the age of fifteen, Lessing began to sell her stories to magazines. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. The work that gained her international attention, The Golden Notebook, was published in 1962. By the time of her death, she had published more than 50 novels, some under a pseudonym. In 1982 Lessing wrote two novels under the literary pseudonym Jane Somers to show the difficulty new authors face in trying to get their work printed. The novels were rejected by Lessing's UK publisher but later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour was published in Britain and the US in 1983 and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984, both as written by Jane Somers." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0060171502 Autobiography Doris Lessing Authors Author Biography England South Africa
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43312
- Book number: 43312
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