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- Hardcover
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Seller: High Kicker Books, Takoma Park, MD, U.S.A.High Kicker Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Near Fine condition. Original cloth-backed boards are clean and sharp, with a tight, square binding and no lean. Interior pages are fresh and unmarked throughout, with no names, inscriptions, or remainder marks. A very well-preserved copy, showing only the lightest evidence of careful handling. Near Fine dust jacket. The original unclipped jacket ($16.95) is bright and complete, with strong color to the spine and panels. Minor spine-end rubbing and very light edge wear prevent a Fine designation, but there are no tears, stains, or significant flaws. A handsome first edition, first printing of The Fifth Child, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988.
Seller Inventory # N1115
- Title
- The Fifth Child
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394571053
- ISBN 13
- 9780394571058
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 345.864 grams
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Review
"A hair-raising tale...as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire." --Time"Terse and chilling.... A witch's brew of conflicting fears." --The New York Review of Books"A horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse.... A moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four." --The New York Times Book Review
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High Kicker Books
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