Time Bites: Views and Reviews
by LESSING, Doris
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins, 2005. Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION. Large 8vo. Grey cloth spine lettered in gilt, cream paper boards. Thick black pen-line to top edge, else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket: light edgewear. Near fine/ near fine. A splendid copy of what, in 2005, was Lessing's only collection of literary essays and criticism. "This is a book about books and writers�Stendhal and Muriel Spark, Pride and Prejudice, de Beauvoir and Ecclesiastes, Virginia Woolf�but in its breadth and precision, Time Bites is also a map of the human spirit" (DJ front flap blurb)
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2287
- Title
- Time Bites: Views and Reviews
- Author
- LESSING, Doris
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
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