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Lessing, Doris
Martha Quest
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London;
Date of Publication: 1952
Stock Code: 9067
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 319, [1]. Publishers’ green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Peter Rudland. Slightly cocked, with a touch of sunning to spine tips, corners rubbed; and a barely visible bruise to top edge of upper board. Free endpapers a little toned. Dust-jacket a hint of toning to white panels, with nicks & creases to edge and some loss to spine tips and corners. A very good book in a good jacket. Signed by the author, without dedication, to half-title. A full-scale portrait of a girl from adolescence to womanhood, set in Africa where Noble Prize winning author Lessing grew up. “Martha Quest” was her second novel, and the first in the five volume semi-autobiographical series “Children of Violence”. £250.00