First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Michael Joseph, 1952.
Inscribed by the author to the title page: "Doris Lessing 25th December 1983." The second novel by Lessing, and the first in the Children of Violence series. A very good copy, some wear and chipping to extremities of jacket, light fading to the boards, and offsetting to endpapers.
