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198835335HOFFMANN & CAMPE 1988. 1. hardcover. HOFFMANN & CAMPE hardcover
1962016021Simon & Schuster 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket.First Printing Stated. $5.95 On Flap. Author's Masterpiece Excellent Copy. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
198418425New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc 1984. 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 COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover
195217387London: Michael Joseph 1952. 1952. First British printing. 8vo. 320 pp. Original green cloth binding. SIGNED by Lessing the 2007 Nobel Laureate on the title page. The author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Book slightly slanted with some cloth fading at the extremities else very good in a very good price-intact DJ with shallow chipping at the spinal extremities. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London: Michael Joseph (1952). hardcover
199718422London: Harper Collins 1997. 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 COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Harper Collins hardcover
1959737K6Northwood: Scorpion Press 1959. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon limited edition of the collection of poetry from Nobel Prize winning novelist Doris Lessing. Limited edition of three hundred and fifty copies of which this is number three hundred and twenty three. In the original paper wraps. Doris Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 making her the oldest person to ever receive the award. Lessing is best known for her novels particularly the 1950 work The Grass is Singing. This particular limited edition work is an uncommon collection of her poetical works but contains many of the psychological themes for which her works are so well known. In the original paper wraps. Externally in excellent condition with just minor shelf wear and the occasional handling mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine Scorpion Press paperback
19802105250001Alfred a Knopf 1980-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x5. Signed. 5 volume hard cover set - vol 1 3rd printing - all others 1st printings - volume 5 signed by Lessing on 1/2 title page - some wear to edges of dust jackets now in mylar covers vol 1 price clipped - some staining to cover of vol 5 - otherwise covers fine bindings strong contents clean - enjoy Alfred a Knopf hardcover
1979008312Random House Inc. DJ in archival cover. Stated first American edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979. Random House Inc hardcover
1985499727London: Jonathan Cape 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Limited edition. Slightly bowed bows else near fine in a fine glassine dust jacket. Copy 195 of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. Jonathan Cape hardcover
197824613AB1978. Leipzig Insel 1978. Folio. 152 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe mit originalem Schutzumschlag in Brodart / Mylar Spezielle Sammler - Schutzfolie für Schutzumschläge. Leinen mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur absolut geringen rein äußerlichen Gebrauchsspuren. Rücken des Umschlags etwas vergilbt. Nathan the Wise original German title: "Nathan der Weise" is a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1779. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. It was never performed during Lessing's lifetime and was first performed in 1783 at the Döbbelinsches Theater in Berlin. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan the enlightened sultan Saladin and the initially anonymous Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism Islam and Christianity. Its major themes are friendship tolerance relativism of God a rejection of miracles and a need for communication. Wikipedia Anatoli Tankhum Lvovich Kaplan December 26 1902 in Rahachow Belarus- July 3 1980 in Leningrad was a Jewish-Russian painter sculptor and printmaker whose works often reflect his Jewish origins. Kaplan one was one of six children; his father was a butcher in Rahachow which was at that time within the Jewish Pale of Settlement in Russia. His background was therefore not dissimilar to that of Marc Chagall born a generation earlier in 1887 and although their lives were very different their art has much in common. The shtetl figures in many of Kaplan's paintings - autobiographical references are very clear in The Butcher's Shop 1972 and Tailor's Shops 1975 and in the many illustrations which he was to create to the works of Sholem Aleichem. Around 1922 Kaplan came to Leningrad then named Petrograd where he was to base his career for the rest of his life although he often revisited the towns of his childhood. He graduated in 1927 from the Russian Academy of Arts there. In the 1930s he became associated with a group of artists and lithographers in Leningrad which had been instructed to prepare a series of works dedicated to the remote Jewish Autonomous Oblast being created by Stalin in the hope of resettling Russia's Jewish population in a remote area in the Far East of the country. Here Kaplan learnt and took to the skills of printmaking developing many individual techniques. His first cycle of prints 1937-1940 was entitled Kasrilevka the name of the village invented by Sholem Aleichem. During the war Kaplan was at first evacuated to the Urals but returned to Leningrad in 1944. His lithograph cycle of Landscapes of Leningrad during the Days of the Blockade 1948 was widely acclaimed in Russia and was purchased by eighteen State galleries. At one time Kaplan was supervisor of design in a glassware factory and this gave him an interest in the third dimension which was later to blossom in his ceramics and sculptures. From the 1950s onwards Kaplan's artworks concentrated on Jewish themes despite constant and often serious opposition and obstruction from the Soviet cultural authorities. Amongst these works should be mentioned his cover and illustrations to the Jewish Folksongs of Dmitri Shostakovich 1977 illustrations to Aleichem's Tevye the Milkman 3 series 1957-1966 The Enchanted Tailor 1954-57 and Song of Songs 1962 and a magnificent series of coloured lithographs printed in London in 1961 on the old Jewish Passover song Chad Gadya One Kid Goat. Throughout this time Kaplan was also producing paintings though in view of their subject matter they were rarely displayed in the Russia of his time. From 1967 onward he began also to produce ceramics and sculptures including a remarkable set based on the characters of Gogol's Dead Souls. Wikipedia Anatoli Lwowitsch Kaplan 28. Dezember 1902 in Rahatschou Weißrussland; 3. Juli 1980 in Leningrad war ein russisch-jüdischer Maler Bildhauer und Grafiker. Kaplans Umfeld in der Kindheit war nicht unähnlich dem von Marc Chagall der eine Generation früher 1887 geboren wurde. Auch wenn das Leben der beiden Künstler sehr unterschiedlich verlief so haben sie in ihrem Werk doch viel gemeinsam. Vor allem die Stetl-Gestalten und Szenen spielen bei beiden eine große Rolle. Ebenso die autobiographischen Bezüge wie sie in Kaplans Gemälden Metzgerladen 1972 und Schneiderladen 1975 ganz offensichtlich sind ebenso in vielen Illustrationen zu Werken des Schriftstellers Scholem Alejchem. Auf der Akademie wurde Kaplan in erster Linie als Maler ausgebildet. Weil er damit in den Jahren danach sein Brot nicht verdienen konnte musste er alle möglichen Aufgaben übernehmen. Dadurch erwarb er sich Routine auch in dekorativen und plakativen Arbeiten sowie in unterschiedlichsten Techniken samt dem Umgang mit Schrift und Ornamenten. Im Jahr 1937 erhielt er den Auftrag des Leningrader Ethnographischen Museums für die jüdische Sektion eine Serie von Lithographien zu schaffen. Jetzt erst in der Experimentierwerkstatt des Leningrader Künstlerverbandes erlernte Kaplan systematisch die Techniken der Druckgrafik. Er entwickelte auch eigene Verfahren. Seinen ersten Lithographie-Zyklus 19371940 nannte er Kasrilewke nach einem Dorf in einer Erzählung von Scholem Alejchem. Der Krieg brachte einen harten Einschnitt in Kaplans künstlerisches Wirken. Erst 1944 nach der Rückkehr aus der Evakuierung im Ural konnte er seine Arbeit wieder aufnehmen. Er begann sofort mit einem Lithographien-Zyklus über die Leiden seiner Stadt. 1946 erschien die Mappe Leningrad in den Tagen der Blockade. Kaplan führte die Bildfolge bis zum Ende der fünfziger Jahre weiter und bezog den Wiederaufbau ein. Ab 1953 konzentrierte sich Kaplan wieder ganz auf jüdische Themen. Damit eckte er ständig und ernsthaft bei den sowjetischen Kulturbehörden an. Unter den Werken dieser Epoche sind besonders bemerkenswert die Illustrationen zu Jüdische Volkslieder von Dmitri Schostakowitsch zu Scholem Alejchems Tewje der Milchmann Der behexte Schneider und Stempenju und zu Mendele Moicher Sforims Fischke der Lahme. Ab 1967 schuf Kaplan vor allem Keramiken und Skulpturen darunter einen bemerkenswerten Satz von Gestalten aus Gogols Roman Die toten Seelen. In Formen und Farben beweist er einen phantastisch-spielerischen Umgang mit dem Material. Wikipedia hardcover
198747376FISCHER 10/1987. 1. softcover. Canopus im Argos: Archive Ungekürzte Ausgabe! FISCHER paperback
1981Q-0224018914Jonathan Cape 1981-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Jonathan Cape hardcover
1990BN110503Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag 1990. 1990. Werke und Briefe in zwölf Bänden 5.1-2 : Werke 1760 - 1766 / Werke 1766 - 1769 <br/><br/>Werke und Briefe in zwölf Bänden 5.1-2 : Werke 1760 - 1766 / Werke 1766 - 1769 Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag unknown
199916891sB12London: Flamingo 1999 The remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value. 407pp. Signed by the author to the title page and dated 6th April 1999. Flamingo hardcover
19529067London; Michael Joseph 1952 1952. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pp. 319 1. Publishers' green cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Peter Rudland. Slightly cocked with a touch of sunning to spine tips corners rubbed; and a barely visible bruise to top edge of upper board. Free endpapers a little toned. Dust-jacket a hint of toning to white panels with nicks & creases to edge and some loss to spine tips and corners. A very good book in a good jacket. Signed by the author without dedication to half-title. A full-scale portrait of a girl from adolescence to womanhood set in Africa where Noble Prize winning author Lessing grew up. "Martha Quest" was her second novel and the first in the five volume semi-autobiographical series "Children of Violence". London; Michael Joseph, 1952 hardcover
1962HALL505085Hardback. 1962. The book is very good except for slight tape marks on the endpapers. The dust jacket is near fine apart from 2 very small marks on the front flap. . hardcover
197118075London: Jonathan Cape 1971. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 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
198318420London: Jonathan Cape 1983. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Jonathan Cape hardcover
19929089NY: HARPER-COLLINS. Fine. 1992. First American Edition. Cloth in Slipcase. 0002550199 . SIGNED Limited Edition. One of 125 numbered copies printed. Fine in publisher's sealed slipcase. Nobel Prize laureate.; Signed by Author . HARPER-COLLINS. hardcover
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
197429159London: Octagon Press 1974. First edition. Small label ghost to front paste down offsetting to free end papers text paper toned tanning along board edges a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to the spine ends. 29159. Octavo boards. Signed by Lessing on the title page. "A housebound woman witnesses the near-future breakdown of society. This is a meditative philosophical novel of considerable merit but only marginally science fictional" - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 232. Filmed in 1981 starring Julie Christie. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Octagon Press unknown
198055469New York: Knopf 1980. First edition. Very good plus. Rare uncorrected long galley proofs for the first US edition of the Nobel winner's sci-fi novel third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. Inspired by Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS was short-listed for the 1981 Booker Prize. A scarce format. 24'' x 8'' unfolded. 121 long unbound sheets printed one side only loosely folded to center. Mild toning edgewear. Touches of soil. Housed in an archival box. Knopf unknown
199146731HEYNE WILHELM 1991. 4. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
199914339London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002256398 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with minor bumping to corners. SIGNED and dated 6th April 1999 by AUTHOR and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing; A New Ice age thousands of years in the future has buried the northern hemisphere in ice and snow. At the southern end of the continent of Ifrik young siblings Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of climate menacing animals and the hostile Rock People. They head North but what will they find ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
198119744London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224018914 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper with publisher's price-sticker of £6.95. Signed and inscribed by Lessing in April 1981 to Ingmar Bjorksten - a Swedish writer who has been connected to the Nobel Prize committee - 26 years before Lessing received the award. An attractive and scarce association copy; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. Volume III returns to the planet Shikasta of Vol. I this time telling the story of human history and evolution from the Sirian perspective a more bureaucratic and less advanced civilization. Booker Prize shortlisted in 1981; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 3; 8vo ; xii 288 4 pages; Note: Last two leaves blank ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
