The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives) (First Edition)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($11.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 146 pages. The fourth novel in Lessing's "Canopus in Argos: Archives" series, a cycle of speculative fiction exploring civilization, evolution, and interstellar influence across time and space. The five books in the series are: "Shikasta" (1979), "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five" (1980), "The Sirian Experiments" (1981), "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" (1982), and "The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire" (1983). Initially divisive for its departure from realism, the series was later recognized for its visionary scope and philosophical depth. Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 and received other major honors including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Prix Médicis étranger, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Rear copies.…