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195729698London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. FIRST EDITION. A fine bright copy in dust jacket. <br/><br/> MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
1957137490London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First. hardcover. fine/fine. d.w. London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. Fine copy in a bright pictorial jacket.<br/><br/> MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
19811010172NY: Knopf 1981. First US edition first prnt. Full-cloth with gilt spine lettering. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Spine bottom edge cloth minimally rubbed and pushed; dustjacket with beginning toning on flaps' topedges and minimal wear at spine ends. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Third volume in Lessing's Canapos in Agos: Archives series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
1988120829Helsinki: Eurographica 1988. First edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Lessing on the title page. This copy also dated by her "1988" presumambly all copies dated. Copy #196. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. Perfect-bound printed wraps with French-fold flaps. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper. #25 in the publisher's "Contemporary Authors" series. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Eurographica Paperback books
17733587Braunschweig: Buchhandlung des furstl. Waysenhauses 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First volume of this multi-volume work. Contemporary boards leather spine well worn. Contents very good. <br/><br/> Buchhandlung des furstl. Waysenhauses hardcover books
1991245369Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Green morocco spine and decorated boards. Fine. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Library of Congress unknown books
197027896North Hills PA: Printed for the Philobiblion Club Bird & Bull Press 1970. First Thus. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Slim quarto 30.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed marbled boards spine lettered in black; 13pp.; 4 mounted facsimile plates; staplebound facsimile catalogue laid into chemise mounted inside rear cover. Fine. Facsimile of the hoax auction catalogue issued in 1840 organized by Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon. Printed for the Philobiblion Club, Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1992002285New York: HarperCollins 1992. Copy Number 25 of 125 in a Specially Bound Slipcased First U.S. Edition. There were also 26 copies lettered A-Z. As New in As New decorative slipcase. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Signed First Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket As Issued. HarperCollins Hardcover books
195451513London: Michael Joseph 1954. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 89-4382pp. Spine ends gently nudged with a faint tiny splash mark to upper and lower edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with a few tiny tears and two shallow nicks at crown; Very Good. The second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author's Children of Violence series written between 1952-1969. Michael Joseph unknown books
19602696London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" San Francisco Chronicle. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. In swift barbed style in high hard farcical writing that is eruptively funny Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliantpiece of cultural interpretation an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read. "Eloquent.Wry and ribald.Lessing's impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make In Pursuit of the English readable and amusing" New York Times MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
198450071London: Michael Joseph 1984. First edition. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Kay. First published in 1984 under a pseudonym as 'The Diary of a Good Neighbour' and 'If the Old Could .' now published as 'The Diaries of Jane Somers' this is in many ways classic Lessing. As resonant with social and political themes as 'The Golden Notebook' Lessing returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and experience of maturity. The diaries introduce us to Jane an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success clothes and comfort. But her real inadequacy is highlighted when first her husband then her mother die from cancer and Jane feels strangely removed. In an attempt to fill this void she befriends ninety-something Maudie whose poverty and squalor contrast so radically with the glamour and luxury of the magazine world. The two gradually come to depend on each other - Maudie delighting Jane with tales of London in the 1920s and Jane trying to care for the rapidly deteriorating old woman. 'The Diary of Jane Somers' contrasts the helplessness of the elderly with that of the young as Jane is forced to care for her nineteen-year-old drop-out niece Kate who is struggling with an emotional breakdown. Jane realizes that she understands young people as little as she so recently did the old. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1962140941114London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Fine. First edition first printing. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Fine with light dust-soiling to top edge of textblock. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel. Michael Joseph unknown books
1974D16698London: The Octagon Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth; dust jacket. Nice copy with only minor wear. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. <br/><br/> The Octagon Press hardcover books
19734117NY: Knopf 1973. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Shallow wrinkle on the spine bottom edge cloth; dustjacket with two corner creases and tiny nick on the front flap. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's sixth novel and basis for the David Gladwell directed 1981 film starring Julie Christie and Christopher Guard. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
198123431New York: Alfred Knopf 1981. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good . Stated first edition. The third book n the author's cycle of visionary novels Canopus in Argos: Archhives. 288 pp. Review copy with publisher's promotional card and author photograph laid in. A very good clothbound copy in price intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Alfred Knopf unknown books
197016315North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text but fades as it gets away from boards appears to be offset from glue in binding. Otherwise in excellent condition. Neat previous owner's inscription on front free end paper. Number 56 of the 160 copies printed for members of the Philobiblon Club on handmade paper from a total edition of 250 copies. A fabulous story of one of the world's great biblio hoaxes. Neat inscription on front pastedown from Mort Whitehead to Robert K. Johnson. Bird & Bull Press hardcover books
5131Engraved frontis. port. of Rosenwald. 4to orig. green morocco-backed decorated boards. Washington: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 deluxe copies specially bound and with the engraved portrait finely printed by W. Thomas Taylor. A really excellent collection of essays. Fine. hardcover books
1991013531Library of Congress 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Limited Edition 1/300 Copies # 30 Signed by Photographer And William Matheson. Mint Copy Very Scarce. Library of Congress Hardcover books
1970456Philadelphia: Philobiblon Club 1970. cloth spine marbled paper over boards. Bird & Bull Press. 4to. cloth spine marbled paper over boards. 19 pages with a 16-page 8vo. facsimile of the original Fortsas Catalogue in a pocket in the inside rear cover. One of 250 numbered copies Taylor B2. This book was designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. The "Avis" and the text of M. Polain's newspaper account of the hoax are reproduced in facsimile and tipped-in. An important addition to the literature connected to this famous auction hoax. Fine condition. Philobiblon Club unknown books
197131119London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Just-beginning page toning; dustjacket with very faint beginning toning on the flaps' topedges. Bright copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.Lessing's fourth novel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jonathan Cape Hardcover books
200821411NY: HarperCollins 2008. First US edition first prnt. Originally published by Fourth Estate in the same year. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Black & white photographs. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's combination of novella and memoir of her parents' lives affected by WW I. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
1779176516Berlin: Voss 1779. Hardcover. VG pages tanned as expected with age but pages are readable. Original paper wraps are rebound in full green leather boards gilt lettering on spine with four raised bands untrimmed pages 253 pp. Written in German. Nathan The Wise a dramatic poem in five acts. Voss hardcover books
17876593Bern: in der Hallerschen Buchandlung 1787. Soft cover. Good. 8vo 152 x 95mm. 60pp. Modern wrappers margins trimmed close occasional spots lightly browned; front wrap loose but present. A satire on the Berlin academy written jointly by Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn criticizing the philosophical system of Alexander Popeís Essay on Man 1733-1734. Lessing German writer critic and dramatist was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings often witty and ironic substantially influenced the development of German literature. In 1755 the collaborative work of Lessing and his friend philosopher Moses Mendelssohn anonymously appeared in the form of this provocative treatise Pope ein Metaphysiker! Pope as a Metaphysician. The controversial treatise dissected the subject of a contest at the Prussian Royal Academy. The two friends wrote it to confirm that there cannot be a true comparison between a poetic and a philosophic conception. <br/><br/> Bern: in der Hallerschen Buchandlung paperback books
192823399Berlin: Oesterheld & Co 1928. First edition. Original yellow printed boards slight wear; very good. With an inscribed picture postcard a portrait of the author tipped to the rear endpaper. <br/><br/> Oesterheld & Co hardcover books
195216012London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear. Jacket design by Peter Rudland. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books