Children of Violence [Four Volumes in Two] [Signed Bookplate Laid into Vol. 1/2]

  • SIGNED
  • New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964
By Doris Lessing
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964, 1966. First Printings, stated. Four volumes in two; octavos (22cm.); publisher's boards in unclipped dust jackets; 605, 544pp. Light wear to board and jacket margins, brief tape repair to verso of spine ends of Vol. 1/2, corners bumped, else a Very Good, bright and sound set. Bookplate signed by the author laid into the earlier volume.

Omnibus editions of the first four Children of Violence novels: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and Landlocked (1965). The final entry, The Four-Gated City, would appear in 1969.

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