Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos: Archives)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good. SIGNED. 178pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and an embossed title on the front cover. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed, and the boards are splayed. In a dust jacket, with mild edge wear, and a thin 1/2" deep tear in the paper at the head of the jacket's spine. A science fiction novel, and the fifth book in Doris Lessing's cycle, Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing, with the date "17th June 1984," on the second half title page.