The Cleft [Signed]

London: Fourth Estate, 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page.

The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing’s lifetime, the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.