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19671391295New York NY: Simon and Schuster 1967. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 126 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. White spine with black and blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has mild shelving wear stains throughout and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have light bumping on the rear fore corners mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and stains throughout. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391295. Special Collections. Simon and Schuster hardcover
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
195085431London: Michael Joseph 1950. First edition. 256 pp. Hard erasure and some light foxing to front free endpaper else very good plus in like dust jacket with tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket along the top and bottom edges and a chip to crown that takes out most of the lettering in “The Grass.†London: Michael Joseph unknown
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
19811010172<p>NY: Knopf 1981. First US edition first prnt. Full-cloth with gilt spine lettering. <em>Signed</em> 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 Argos: Archives series. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> Knopf hardcover
19736833KNOPF. NY 1973. Very Good. 1973. First Edition. First American Edition. "First" state of UNCORRECTED PROOF. SIGNED by Doris Lessing on the title page. A very good copy in plain blue printed wrappers. Title inked on spine. Mild spine lean. trifle foxing at top edge. Remnants of a routing label on cover Nobel Prize laureate. . KNOPF. NY 1973 unknown
200033240London: Harper Collins 2000 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition Signed by the author on the title-page. A fine copy in black cloth silver titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 418 pp. With prefaces to the 1964 and 1973 editions included. London: Harper Collins, (2000) hardcover
1942mon0003139042Sino-Swedish Expedition 1942T. hardcover. Good. . Beige cloth cover shows minor wear rubbing bumped corners and foxing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. Fold-out diagram is included in pocket at rear. Sino-Swedish Expedition hardcover
197057563North Hills: Birf & Bull Press 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #142 of 250cc. Slim quart bound in publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with facsimile catalog in chemise in rear. Pages slightly tanned esle a very good example. <br/><br/> Birf & Bull Press hardcover
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
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
1996002919New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1996. First American Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William-Adolphe Bouguereau DJ painting The Dance. 1855. Lessing's Nobel Laureate 2007 earlier novel about a 65 year old woman who falls in love. 352 pp. Blue paper covered boards have author's monogram in large gilt letters on front panel black cloth spine has gilt text. Unclipped $ 24.00 DJ has trace of shelf wear ow it too is as new. HarperCollins letter announcing release is laid in. Book is from the collection of Greg Gatenby a Toronto author/poet who perennially hosted the Harbourfront Literary Festivals. The date of acquisition and his signature ffep. FlatSIGNED by Lessing above her name on Full Title Page. SIGNED by AUTHOR Bookseller's Inventory # 122919. <br/> <br/> HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
19566536London: Michael Joseph 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscribed second impression of a novel almost never found signed because it was repudiated on political grounds by its Nobel Prize winning author. In dark ink on the first free endpaper is written: 'X/ To the Youth/ Doris Lessing'. Who is the youth and what was his relationship with Lessing Answers came there none. The book is near fine in black cloth a second impression from two months after the first. The jacket is not price-clipped bright with just a little rubbing to top and tail of the spine and browning to the lower printed panel. Set in austere post-war London this novel a much better effort is claimed by its detractors tells the story of an affair between Julia and a Czech emigre communist Jan Brod. Lessing later rejected the novel and refused to have it reprinted because she had chosen to end the novel with Brod's loyal return to communist Eastern Europe which she came to judge as the wrong call in the light of the invasion of Hungary and her own disenchantment with Marxism. Near Fine 1956 Michael Joseph hardcover
1969966T76London: Macgibbon & Kee; Jonathan Cape 1969-1988. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5"; 8" by 5.5". None. Three smart first edition novels from British writer Doris May Lessing. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Doris May Lessing a British novelist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize the Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience who with scepticism fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 87. This set contains: The Four-Gated City 1969. The concluding novel in Lessing's semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence. Moving to London Martha "is integrally part of the social history of the time - the Cold War the Aldermaston Marches Swinging London the deepening of poverty and social anarchy." The novel extends into science fiction depicting a dystopian future following the destruction of Britain. Briefing for a Descent into Hell 1971. A psychological novel. A well-dressed but disheveled man is found wandering alone at night on London's Embankment. Unable to remember anything he is escorted to a psychiatric hospital where he is identified as Charles Watkins a professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. The Fifth Child 1988. A short novel describing the changes in the happy life of a married couple Harriet and David Lovatt as a consequence of the birth of Ben their fifth child. In the original full cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and panel edges of The Four-Gated City. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Macgibbon & Kee; Jonathan Cape hardcover
1910feb19590Lumen 1910. Used. 1910; Romanian Edition of Poezii Alese; For more details please contact me Lumen unknown
1910feb19585Lumen 1910. Used. 1910; Romanian Edition of Educatia Omenirei; For more details please contact me Lumen unknown
19500092970 First edition/First printing published by Michael Joseph London 1950. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Sunning to edges and spine of cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped. small chip to top edge near spine and small nick to bottom edge. Protected in archive cover. Michael Joseph hardcover
19659986London: Macgibbon & Kee 1965; 1969. The complete set of 5 novels in very good condition in the four volume Children of Violence sequence: Books I & II. MacGibbon and Kee: London 1965. Martha Quest and A Proper Marriage: Red paper boards titled in gilt to spine in good condition with just a little spine lean. Text block clean and unmarked. Foyle's Bookshop label to front pastedown. Original unclipped jacket very good a little speckled to spine with just a small nick to the tip. Book III. A Ripple from the Storm. MacGibbon and Kee: London 1965. Red paper boards titled in gilt to spine near pristine. Text block a little speckled to edges otherwise clean and unmarked. Original unclipped jacket very good. Book IV. Landlocked. First Edition. MacGibbon and Kee: London 1965. Red paper boards titled in gilt to spine near pristine. Text block a little speckled to edges otherwise clean and unmarked. Original unclipped jacket very good. Book V. MacGibbon and Kee: London 1969. The Four Gated City. First Edition. Red cloth publisher's boards near very good; text block clean and unmarked; slight spine lean evident. Original reversible jacket in very good condition to both sides. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1965 Macgibbon & Kee hardcover
198514249London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224023233 . A most beautiful Limited Numbered first edition/first printing in Fine condition with very little evidence of wear in original glassine dust-jacket in alike condition; SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Cloth spine is embossed with gold lettering. Boards are covered in handsome decorative paper; The tale of a group of small-time British radicals who get mixed up in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Alice Mellings is the "good'' terrorist a well-intentioned squatter and group caretaker assuming the role of housemaker she abhors in her own mother. A novel about home family and revolt on several levels; 12mo ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
1954011136London: Michael Joseph 1954. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Briefly inscribed With best wishes from and SIGNED by the author. Slight spine lean and spotting on top edge otherwise very good in a very good dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. <br/> <br/> Michael Joseph hardcover
197131119<p>London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First edition first prnt. <em>Signed</em> 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 fifth novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.</p> Jonathan Cape hardcover
1979299617knopf 1979 - 1981 five first editions hardcover. fine books fine jackets some spine bumping one store stamp inside one bookplates one review slip knopf hardcover
197118076London: Jonathan Cape 1971. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET NEAR FINE. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COPY. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1974mon0000161761Bantam 1974-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1.0000 in x 7.7992 in x 5.1181 in. Bantam paperback
19104785DB1910. Leipzig Insel 1910. 22 x 175 cm. 40 S. Faksimile 40 S. Umschrift. Orig.-Lederband mit Aussenkantenvergoldung. Sarkowski 1024 VA. Nr. 29 von 200. Mit Faksimile des handschriftlichen Entwurfs des Nathan von 1779. Lose beigegeben die Umschrift. Der Einbandrücken und die Kanten berieben mit kleiner Fehlstelle am oberen Kapital. Die Vorsätze gebräunt. unknown
