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1969Q-0394425189Knopf 1969-04-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Knopf hardcover
1984Q-0394537572Alfred A. Knopf 1984-04-12. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1979212927New York: Knopf 1979. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small chip at spine crown. Knopf hardcover
1983203396Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 253 pages. A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author published under a pseudonym as a stunt to show the treatment of books by unknown authors. ''I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success' '' she said in a recent telephone conversation from London. ''If the books had come out in my name they would have sold a lot of copies and reviewers would have said 'Oh Doris Lessing how wonderful.' As it is there were almost no reviews and the books sold about 1500 copies here and scarcely 3000 copies each in the United States.''--Lessing in the New York Times September 23 1984. Lessing's long-time British publisher declined to publish either of the two 'Jane Somers' novels before they knew the author was Lessing. First American edition first printing. Near fine in a dust jacket with minor scuffing to covers and light fading to spine thus near fine. Signed by the author as Doris Lessing on the title page.<br> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1988015838Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket Without Wear .First Edition.$16.95 On Flap. Signed On the Title-Page. Beautiful Copy. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
1962131132601London: Michael Joseph 1962. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. First UK edition first printing. Black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine lacking dust jacket. Michael Joseph hardcover
196226761New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First U.S. Edition stated First Printing. Octavo. 568 pp. Printed dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black. Red topstain and endpapers.<br /> <br /> Dust jacket chipped along edges with general rubbing and toning. Slight lean to boards shelfwear corners bumped and a few minor patches of white discoloration along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked. Simon and Schuster unknown
1964572040Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1964. ex-library; cover cocked & lightly rubbed; corners & spine ends lightly bumped. hardcover. Good. Georg Olms hardcover
20001391293New York NY: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 178 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black and indigo spine with white and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "USA $23.00 - CANADA $34.95" and has mild shelving wear. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391293. Special Collections. HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover
200030924<p>NY: HarperCollins 2000. First US edition first prnt. <em>Signed</em> by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Sequel to Lessing's <em>The Fifth</em> <em>Child</em>. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's thirteenth novel.</p> HarperCollins hardcover
198350181New 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. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1980002974Amsterdam: Meullenhoff Amsterdam 1980. 1st Edition Vierde Druk. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" X 5 . Hilke Tasman-Krohn DJ . Translated from the English by P. van Vliet. Tien verhaalen bij Lessing. 189 pp. Red cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine small ding top front edge. Spine ends slightly rubbed bookseller's stamp ffep. Unclipped unpriced DJ is chipped and has tears near tail of spine. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/ poet Greg Gatenby. His signature and the year of this book's acquisition on ffep. Association/ Dedication copy " Greg - Doris L. October 1991" SIGNED by AUTHOR. Bookseller's Inventory # 122974. <br/> <br/> Meullenhoff Amsterdam hardcover
198412317KNOPF. NY 1984. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First American Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Near fine in plain green printed wrappers. Publicity info stapled to inside of front cover Nobel Prize laureate. B . KNOPF. NY 1984 paperback
198312399London: Michael Joseph 1983. FIRST PRINTING - Lessing's first pseudonymous novel first published under the name Jane Somers - Pages tanning else fine in very fine dust jacket - a scarce book - author won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Michael Joseph Hardcover
198519054<p>New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. <em><strong>Signed by the author on the title page.</strong></em> First edition / First printing. Red cloth spine gray paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. <em><strong>Doris Lessing was the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.</strong></em></p> Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover
1950517155New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Owner's small ink address on front flyleaf boards are lightly soiled else a very good copy in good worn dust jacket with a number of short tears and few nicks creased on spine and rear panel entire length of spine has split at folds and also at the folds of both flaps. Author's first novel. Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover
1957508790London: MacGibbon and Kee 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Former owner's ink name on front flyleaf else a near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket is lightly spotted and faintly toned and a thin chip and small tear at the crown. MacGibbon and Kee hardcover
1983360220London England: Jonathan Cape 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. Uber-scarce in the trade in this state SIGNED and condition being a sturdy attractive copy little discernible wear bright and shiny dust jacket protected and with only slight foxing to fore-edge. SIGNED by the author at half-title Doris Lessing 8 February 1985. Apparently unread spine still crackles. Black cloth over boards sharp and distinct lettering to spine. True First edition. Big tall Imperial octavo hardcover format. 178 1 pp. This is the fifth in the lengthy series of novels that comprise the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. The author was born 1919 and in 2007 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She won two additional titles in the 1980s for her science fiction storytelling.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Jonathan Cape hardcover
198111379<p>Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.</p><p><b>Synopsis: </b>The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.</p> Jonathan Cape hardcover
197311710<p>NY: Knopf 1973. First US edition first prnt. <em>Signed</em> by Lessing on the half-title page. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering lavender topstain. Beginning toning on board edge cloth especially at the spine ends minimal rubbing on cloth. Dustjacket with beginning toning on upper sections of white background of both panels shallow edge creases. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's fifth novel.</p> Knopf hardcover
1951517146London: Michael Joseph 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small soil spot on spine endpapers and edges lightly foxed else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has light toning. Author's first collection of short stories. Michael Joseph hardcover
19941535New York: Harper Collins 1994. First edition. Octavo original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Harper Collins hardcover
1962MASTER092844INEW YORK: DOVER PUBLICATIONS. VG IN WRAPS RUBBED LIGHT SOILING. PREV NAME ON TITLE. Pages: 265. . 1962. TRADE PAPERBACK. LIGHT RED PENCIL ON PAGE xii. . DOVER PUBLICATIONS paperback
19841391290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$13.95". Light plus creasing at head of dust jacket spine. Jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. Top edge of text block foxed. Signed flat by Lessing on title page as both Lessing and Somers. Shelved in Room C. Doris Lessing published two works this work and THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 1983 under the pseudonym Jane Somers in order to highlight the publishing industry's bias in favor of authors who had already achieved significant financial success. As she expected the works published pseudonymously sold far fewer copies and met with significantly less critical acclaim than the works published under her own name. 1391290. Special Collections. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
19769780452251199-2025Plume 1976. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Doris Lessing</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Plume</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780452251199</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1976</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Her marriage was her prison her body was her torment. Mary Turner had desperately wanted to marry and had accepted the first man to offer himself. Now she was wife to this virtual stranger in his isolated home on the vast African plains.</p> Plume hardcover
