Re: Colonised Planet 5: Shikasta : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating To Visit By Johor (George Sherban)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #006570
Canopus in Argos: Archives. Full blue cloth. xi, 365 pp. Stain to spine head and top edge of front board. A few small stains to top and fore edges of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned and lightly bumped to extremities, stained to reverse. In the extraordinary career of Doris Lessing no work has been more ambitious or more startling. Those who have followed Lessing's evolution as a writer will recognize in this first book of her visionary novel-sequence, Canopus in Argos: Archives, certain of her old preoccupations transformed and developed on this space-age stage of star-Empires, evolving or dying or damaged planets, celestial management (or mismanagement), the givers of good for mankind and the wicked ones from the thieving planet that preys on us.
Price: $45.00