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The Fifth Child
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224025538
- ISBN 13
- 9780224025539
- Seller
-
Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The story is about a family's fifth child who is dramatically different from the four older siblings. A Lessing horror story. 133 pp. Tail of spine is ever so slightly rubbed, book is very slightly cocked. Priceclipped DJ has closed tear/ chip at head of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 133489.
Synopsis
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lower Beverley Better Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003489
- Title
- The Fifth Child
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224025538
- ISBN 13
- 9780224025539
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Terms of Sale
Lower Beverley Better Books
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About the Seller
Lower Beverley Better Books
Biblio member since 2014
Lyndhurst, Ontario
About Lower Beverley Better Books
An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.