RE: COLONISED PLANET 5, SHIKASTA by Lessing, Doris - first edition , 1981

vintage books, first edition , 1981. near fine trade paperback edge rubbing

Panther/Granada 1985. Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Canopus in Argos: Archives. Subtitle Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents relating to a visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emisssary (Grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days. Stamp on lower edge from public library. On dedication pages the number 10 at bottom and a small rectangular cut out. Otherwise book seems free of library marking.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1979., 1979. Very Good. 1st American ed., 3rd printing ; ISBN: 0394507320; 9780394507323 LCCN: 79-11295 ; OCLC: 4774671 ; black cloth in dustjacket ; bookstore stamp on ep ; nicks on dustjacket ; "This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta - clearly the planet Earth - to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives...A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured" ; the first book in the Canopus Series ; VG/VG

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Canopus in Argos: Archives. Full blue cloth. xi, 365 pp. Stain to spine head and top edge of front board. A few small stains to top and fore edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned and lightly bumped to extremities, stained to reverse. In the extraordinary career of Doris Lessing no work has been more ambitious or more startling. Those who have followed Lessing's evolution as a writer will recognize in this first book of her visionary novel-sequence, Canopus in Argos: Archives, certain of her old preoccupations transformed and developed on this space-age stage of star-Empires, evolving or dying or damaged planets, celestial management (or mismanagement), the givers of good for mankind and the wicked ones from the thieving planet that preys on us.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Jacket design: David Prout. Emissary (grade 9). 87th of the period of the last days. The debut volume in Lessing's 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. Science Fiction series in which the Nobel Prize-Winning (2007) author creates a fictional universe in order to metaphorically explore spiritual, cultural and social issues. Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler - born 1919) is a Zimbabwean-British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. 'Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta' (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book 'Canopus in Argos' series. It was first published in the United States in October 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel. 364 + (1). . 1st UK edition. Hard bound with… Read More

knopf, 1979 - 1981 five first editions , hardcover. fine books fine jackets some spine bumping, one store stamp inside, one bookplates, one review slip,