Published by HarperCollins Publishers 20/10/1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through "an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa". Being lifted high up onto her father's horse, watching ostriches high-stepping over the empty distances of the Cape, travelling in ox carts to the new African farm with trunks full of Liberty material and English silver - so begins Doris Lessing's childhood. Born in 1919, into the aftermath of World War I, Doris Lessing was the daughter of middle-class English parents lured by the false promises of the Empire Exhibition to seek their fortune in African farming. For her parents, life in dry, dusty Africa never fulfilled its expectations, but for Doris Lessing, her early life in Southern Rhodesia, with its contradictions and complexities, proved to be fundamental to her evolution as a writer. Readers are taken through her childhood and early youth on the farm, first marriage, the rapturous births of her children, the abandonment of her family to gain independence and a political life, and her second marriage to Gottfried Lessing, an authoritarian, rigorous communist. The book ends as she loses hope of ever changing Africa, and prepares to leave for England with the manuscript of her first novel, "The Grass is Springing" - the key to a new life. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through "an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa". Being lifted high up onto her father's horse, watching ostriches high-stepping over the empty distances of the Cape, travelling in ox carts to the new African farm with trunks full of Liberty material and English silver - so begins Doris Lessing's childhood. Born in 1919, into the aftermath of World War I, Doris Lessing was the daughter of middle-class English parents lured by the false promises of the Empire Exhibition to seek their fortune in African farming. For her parents, life in dry, dusty Africa never fulfilled its expectations, but for Doris Lessing, her early life in Southern Rhodesia, with its contradictions and complexities, proved to be fundamental to her evolution as a writer. Readers are taken through her childhood and early youth on the farm, first marriage, the rapturous births of her children, the abandonment of her family to gain independence and a political life, and her second marriage to Gottfried Lessing, an authoritarian, rigorous communist. The book ends as she loses hope of ever changing Africa, and prepares to leave for England with the manuscript of her first novel, "The Grass is Springing" - the key to a new life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers 20/10/1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Published by HarperCollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Published by HarperCollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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Published by HarperCollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Published by HarperCollins, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition. First impression. 8vo. Pp 419 + frontis and 12pp b&w photographs. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, [ix],419pp, illust. D/j price-clipped and slightly bumped. A fair copy. 000255545X/1.0uk.
Published by HarperCollins, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 4th printing of the first edition. Dustwrapper is protected.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. No markings except gift inscription on first inner leaf. Price clipped dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by HarperCollins Harper Collins, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
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First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. uncorrected proof copy appears different to American one. Book.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket one or two very light pencil marks - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing, dust jacket worn, some dust marking to the top edge of the pages. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.
Published by Harpercollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Hunt For Books, Blackburn, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Under My Skin; Volume One of my Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing. 1994. Hardback. UK first edition. Book and jacket in very good condition. Jacket has been price clipped. Clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB002322.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Begins with childhood in Africa and her arrival in England with her first manuscript in 1949. 1kg weight ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 422 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This copy is in FINE, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Doris May Lessing CH OMG 22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952 - 1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979 - 1983). Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994) was the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, covering the period of her life from birth in 1919 to leaving Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1949. Although Lessing describes her fiction as not autobiographical, in this volume she makes explicit comparisons between herself and the leading character, Martha Quest, of the Children of Violence series Ref EEE 5.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Riverside Books UK, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Haprer Collins, London 1994. First Edition. Book condition: Near fine. Black cloth-covered boards with gold titles to spine. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket very good/near fine. Minimal shelf wear. Volume one of autobiography: her umbringing in, then, Southern Rhodesia.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: madelyns books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1st edition. Fine condition hardcover in fine dust jacket. Shipped quickly from the U/K. Images available on request.
Published by HarperCollins, London England, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Boards. Condition: Fine. 2nd Impression. There can be few modern autobiographies so revealing of the mind of their creator. This book shows a woman uncompromising, from the beginning, in every respect, who break all the rules, who battles at every turn against her upbringing and enviornment, who looks on the world clear and hard; and yet also displays a softness, a wonderful sense of humour, a compassion for human failure. This book shows - amongst many other things - how completely the life and work of one of the great writers of the twentieth century are of a single and indestructible piece. Illustrated. Price clipped.
Published by HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Hardback. Condition: Good condition. This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa. high-stepping over the empty distances of the Cape, travelling in ox carts to the new African farm with trunks full of Liberty material and English silver - so begins Doris Lessing's childhood. daughter of middle-class English parents lured by the false promises of the Empire Exhibition to seek their fortune in African farming. For her parents, life in dry, dusty Africa never fulfilled its expectations, but for Doris Lessing, her early life in Southern Rhodesia, with its contradictions and complexities, proved to be fundamental to her evolution as a writer. marriage, the rapturous births of her children, the abandonment of her family to gain independence and a political life, and her second marriage to Gottfried Lessing, an authoritarian, rigorous communist. The book ends as she loses hope of ever changing Africa, and prepares to leave for England with the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Springing - the key to a new life. 4.3 Centimeters X 15.9 Centimeters X 24 Centimeters.
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is Volume one only. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 419 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher - HarperCollins, London, 1994. 1st ed. Near fine in like clipped jacket.
Published by HarperCollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by HarperCollins, 1994
ISBN 10: 000255545X ISBN 13: 9780002555456
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:000255545X.