The Summer Before the Dark.

£475 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

presentation copy With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'Clive Sinclair Sincerely Doris Lessing 23rd May 1980'. Clive Sinclair was an author and fellow winner of the Somerset Maugham Award which Lessing had won some two decades earlier. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's grey boards, titles to spine gilt, grey topstain, cream endpapers, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the price-clipped dust jacket.

• Binding: Hardcover

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