BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL [Signed]

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394421981 ISBN 13: 9780394421988

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1971

Language: English

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Octavo, 308 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$6.95", has mild shelving wear, chipping along the head fore corners, and a small open tear along the spine head edge. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, stains along the edges and joints, and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391288. Special Collections. Seller Inventory # 1391288

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Title: BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL [Signed]

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Depicts a professor's fantastic adventure fantasies while undergoing a mental breakdown in a hospital

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"Touching and beautiful."
--"The New York Review of Books"
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
--"Time"
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
--"The Washington Post Book World"

"Touching and beautiful."
"The New York Review of Books"
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
"Time"
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
"The Washington Post Book World""

"Touching and beautiful."
--The New York Review of Books
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
--Time
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
--The Washington Post Book World

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