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190543857Berlin: Kommissions-Verlag bei Ernst Wasmuth 1905. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Folio 16 1/2 x 12 1/2". 6 86pp Text liv 54 tissue-guarded leaves Plates as issued. Original gilt-stamped cloth with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Large vignette to title page. Dedication to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Decorative initial. <br /> <br /> Illustrated with 54 mounted plates in photogravure including one in full color this remarkable work is devoted to the Pomeranian art cabinet a historic piece of furniture that the Augsburg art dealer and diplomat Philipp Hainhofer had built for the Pomeranian Duke Philip II at the beginning of the 17th century. <br /> <br /> The cabinet was a luxurious artfully crafted desk that looked like a miniaturized Wunderkammer wonder chamber a place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited. <br /> <br /> The art cabinet itself was destroyed in 1945 during World War II but many of the beautiful objects kept inside its numerous drawers remained intact and are still on display at the Berlin’s Kunstgewerbemuseum Museum of Decorative Arts. Some of the objects displayed are: metal playing cards carved ivory chess pieces small paintings apothecary bottles small to large jars that fit into one another like Russian dolls a heart-shaped silver place setting toiletries such as an ivory comb razor shaving brush etc.<br /> <br /> Head and tail of spine frayed. Some soiling to both covers and spine. A 3" closed tear at lower front joint. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Binding in overall fair to good- interior in very good condition. Kommissions-Verlag bei Ernst Wasmuth hardcover
19511001Y55London: Michael Joseph 1951. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A signed first edition of these stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. Her second book and her first short-story collection. Flat signed by the author to the title page. First edition first impression.With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. This is Doris Lessing's first short-story collection and her second book overall following her successful debut novel 'The Grass is Singing'. Here she offers a tightly-knit collection of stories reflecting the country in which she grew up South Africa with each tale handling different aspect of life in the veldt and the attitudes of the settlers during this period. Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only a hint of bumping to the spine and fading to its tail. Bookseller label to front paste down. Dust wrapper is smart with mild sunning to the spine and scattered spots to the wrap. Edge wear resulting in minor loss to the heads and tails of the spine and folds. Tape repair to head of front joint. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spots to the endpapers and the odd spot to the contents. Near Fine Michael Joseph hardcover
195033954London: Michael Joseph 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition of Lessing's first novel neatly Signed by her to the title-page. A very good copy in faded red cloth as is usual yellow titles to the spine in a very good 2nd issue supplied dustwrapper which has been marginally trimmed about an 1/8". A vivid blend of Lessing's imaginative vision and her own memories of early childhood. <br /> An important book.<br /> Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 87. Michael Joseph hardcover
195418414London: Michael Joseph 1954. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Second novel in the acclaimed Martha Quest series. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COPY. Michael Joseph hardcover
198747384FISCHER 10/1987. 1. softcover. Canopus im Argos: Archive Falsa ISBN: 3-596-09150-X! Maloftege! FISCHER paperback
196221201611962. London: Michael Joseph. 1962. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine iconic yellow dust wrapper designed by William Belcher with author's photograph to rear panel priced at 30s to front flap; pp. 567 1; a little wear to jacket especially to hinges of flaps a few chips and small closed tears slight toning to spine a couple of short pen marks to spine and one to front panel slight pushing to crown of spine; endpapers lightly offset some toning to edges of textblock; else a near-fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. First edition first impression of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece.The Golden Notebook centres on Anna Wulf a writer who is attempting to unify the four fragmented notebooks in which she has compartmentalised her life into a single 'golden' volume. Lessing's inspiration for the novel arose out of a desire to write a book about the act of writing itself. Initially she resisted this ambition feeling as though the trope had been overworked but over time she realised her individual approach could render it entirely new. With an explicit focus on the position of women in society Lessing explores wider societal breakdown through the mental break Anna is experiencing. Written at the dawn of second-wave feminism the work resonates with the era's emergent discourses on sexual liberation and the women's movement. hardcover
195042136Michael Joseph 1950. 8vo. First Edition; handsomely bound in full mid-green crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt gilt top gilt doublures hand-made endpapers ribbon marker custom-made slip-case a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the author's first novel a powerful indictment of the racial politics of South Africa in the 1940s. The basis of Michael Raeburn's feature film 1981 starring John Thaw Karen Black and John Kani. Michael Joseph, hardcover
1962BB1611London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of the Nobel laureate’s "indispensable" masterpiece significant "as the most massive statement made up to that time on the position of woman in the modern world." Burgess. Tall thick 8vo: 568pp. Publisher's black boards spine lettered in gilt; first-issue typographic dust jacket photograph of Lessing to rear panel designed by William Belcher priced 30s. About Fine dust-soiled edges mild offsetting to end papers square tight probably unread; about Fine jacket lightly dust soiled back panel several edge nicks still vibrant and bright. Time 100. Burgess 99. p.86. NYPL Books of the Century p.130. Callil and Toibin 52. "Anna Wulf is a writer who keeps four notebooks each a different color each reflecting a different part of her. The black one contains recollections of her youthful wartime years in West Africa . . . In the red one she reflects on her later life in London’s leftist and intellectual circles. The blue notebook analyzes her fraught relations with men. The yellow contains her fragmentary attempts at new fiction. With the fifth the golden notebook and with The Golden Notebook Wulf/Lessing struggles to tie all the threads fearlessly back together again. All the currents of her time flow through Anna—Marx and Freud and the burgeoning dissatisfactions among women that would eventually explode into feminism. Lessing’s earnestness can be too much at times but as a portrait of a woman coming to grips with the realities of her time her book is indispensable." Time 100 N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Michael Joseph hardcover
1962140937803London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Very Good. Advance uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's beige printed wraps. Very Good. Creases to spine rubbing to joints wraps creased light streaking to front cover. Textblock edges dust-soiled and lightly foxed. One of Lessing's best-known works rare in this advance format. Michael Joseph unknown
196219447New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. 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. Just signed -- no inscription. Bookplate is attached to the book. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST U.S. PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Simon & Schuster hardcover
198644752FISCHER 04/1986. 2. softcover. FISCHER paperback
19621391298New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 568 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with white red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$9.95". Jacket with light age toning and moderate marking. Moderate shelf wear and creasing to head and tail of jacket spine; moderate shelf wear to jacket edges and corners. Several closed tears to jacket edges including a moderate tear approx. 2 in. to top edge of front of jacket near spine. Light plus bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Cloth of binding with light plus discoloration at edges and corners. Edges of text block with light plus age toning; light smudging through page 10 of text block including title page. Ink ownership inscription of previous owner to front free endpaper. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. 1391298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Simon and Schuster hardcover
195018071New York: Michael Joseph 1950. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Michael Joseph hardcover
196218074New York: Michael Joseph 1962. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST U.K. PRINTING. HANDSOME COPY. Michael Joseph hardcover
1952100175<p>London:: Hay Wrightson. 1952. Photograph. 4.25" x 6" original photograph SIGNED by Doris Lessing and by Hay Wrightson the photographer. Includes a typed note to the recipient dated 1952 and with her London address also SIGNED by Lessing and the original mailing envelope addressed in Lessing's hand. .</p> Hay Wrightson,
1982002925London: Michael Joseph 1982. 2nd Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. July 1982. Later edition same powerful story! With preface by the author dated June 1971. 638 pp. Black cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine only. Tail of spine is slightly rubbed very slight top edge dust soiling ow book is as new. Price clipped DJ has 1/4" surface abrasion on front for edge rubbing at tail of spine. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet and Harbourfront Literary Events' host Greg Gatenby. The date of his acquisition of the book together with his signature is on ffep. Lessing's dedication is to him. " For Greg - Sincerely Doris Lessing 28th March 1984." Digital images available on SIGNED by AUTHOR. Bookseller's Inventory # 122925. <br/> <br/> Michael Joseph hardcover
1962114758New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. I looked at her and thought: That's my child my flesh and blood. But I couldn't feel it. She said again: `Play mummy.' I moved wooden bricks for a house but like a machine. Making myself perform every movement. I could see myself sitting on the floor the picture of a `young mother playing with her little girl.' Like a film shot or a photograph." These words exemplify the themes Lessing struggled with in The Golden Notebook. They question the notion of identity. In the above quote the protagonist cannot reconcile who she needs to be to remain healthy and whole with what the ideologies of society require her to be. This obsession with constructing a comprehensive sense of identity leads to an infinite fictionalization of the protagonist's life. Lessing's work is not only a significant feminist polemic; it is a multilayered glance into the political climate of the 1960's. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1951164596London: Michael Joseph 1951. Her first short story collection First edition of Lessing's first book of short stories inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Yours very sincerely Doris Lessing 6th March 1966". A collection of stories set in Africa this is Lessing's second book following her debut novel The Grass is Singing 1950. Octavo. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked and faded lightly chipped at head and foot; jacket slightly rubbed spine chipped and toned a few tiny nicks to extremities unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket. hardcover
196282247Print Council of American. As New. 1962. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B0028HWNT4. 72 pages 55 plates lg. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Print Council of American paperback
196282246Print Council of American. As New. 1962. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001881J7G. 72 pages 55 plates lg. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . Print Council of American paperback
196584255National Gallery of Arts. As New. 1965. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 148 pages 365 illustrations 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- . National Gallery of Arts paperback
193382320Institute; Et Al. As New. 1933. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001ROGVM4. 68 pages 13 illus. 12mo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Institute; Et Al paperback
193382319Institute; Et Al. As New. 1933. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B00088T5R8. 68 pages 13 illus. 12mo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Institute; Et Al paperback
193382321Institute; Et Al. As New. 1933. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B001NJRYQA. 68 pages 13 illus. 12mo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Institute; Et Al paperback
193382323Institute; Et Al. As New. 1933. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Corresponds to ASIN: B000KC0U3A. 68 pages 13 illus. 12mo. -- with a bonus offer-- . Institute; Et Al paperback
