DORIS LESSING. A RIPPLE FROM THE STORM. FIRST EDITION. IN SOUTH AFRICA

About this Item: London, Michael Joseph, 1958, 1958. First Edition. The rare and collectible true first edition, all the more rare in a colourful very good dust jacket. Book is very good: gilt on spine is bright and there is minor rubbing to the front board. Neat name on front free endpaper of Jeanne Sassoon, who was prominent in left wing circles in Cape Town. Leaves are otherwise clean apart from very minor foxing on endpapers and top edge. Dust jacket is very good. Not price clipped. A tightly closed tear on front at bottom and minor edgewear. Back is a little rubbed. Colourful fifties design by William Belcher. The third in the series of five Martha Quest novels. It is clearly based on her own failed marriage to Gottfried Lessing and deals with the failure of a Communist group in Central Africa during the early forties. The fifth book in the Marth Quest Children of Violence series, the Four-Gated City, is acknowledged by some as the finest book written by this Nobel Prize-winning author. Africana. Hardback. With dj.