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1962140941022London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed and dated by Doris Lessing on the title page. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light sunning to cover former owner name to front paste down hinge at title page lightly exposed and sporadic marking throughout text and to rear free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning edge wear and soiling. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel. Michael Joseph unknown books
196223319London: Michael Joseph 1962. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . First UK edition of the author's best known work. A Burgess 99 title. An attractive very good to near fine copy in brown cloth binding. Gilt lettering bright and unflaked at spine. In a lightly worn dustwrapper with original 30s net price on the front flap. Small closed tear at bottom of the rear panel. SIGNED by Lessing and uncommon thus. A 20th century literary highspot of high caliber. Michael Joseph unknown books
1962110932London: Michael Joseph 1962. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to the extremities. Jacket design by William Belcher. "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessings most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women" Elizabeth Hardwick New York Times Book Review. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1952796London: Michael Joseph 1952-1969. First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. 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
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 books
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 books
196214163North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1962. First Limited Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; viii 62 iii pp. One of 310 copies. Presentation to Ben Shahn from Lessing Rosenwald on front endpaper: "To Ben Shahn / With Kindest Regards / Lessing" dated 1962. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. The third title from Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press. Scarce; this a particularly fresh copy with a compelling association. Bird & Bull Press unknown books
195423317London: Michael Joseph 1954. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First UK edition of the South Rhodesian author's uncommon fifth book. A follow-up novel featuring Martha Quest. A truly handsome near fine copy in black cloth binding in a stunning unclipped dustwrapper which includes the rare belly band. The band promotes Lessing as the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1954. This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collector's copy to be sure. <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover books
195223318London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First UK edition of the South Rhodesian author's uncommon second book. The first novel featuring her rebel character Martha Quest. A handsome near fine copy in green cloth binding in a sharp unclipped dustwrapper. The wrapper is mildly age spotted on the verso and a very small portion of the rear flap This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the title page. A terrific collector's copy. <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover books
1976403252Jenkintown PA: The Alverthorpe Gallery 1976. 8vo. 10 148 1pp. Original black quarter morocco cloth sides; slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION one of 250 copies designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by The Stinehour Press. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to "Tea" Richardson 1976. <br/><br/> The Alverthorpe Gallery hardcover books
197930305New York: Alfred Knopf 1979. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth 8vo in dustwrapper. 365 pp. First American Edition stated. The first book in Lessing's series Re: Colonized Planet 5. A handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by Lessing on the title page and quite uncommon thus. Alfred Knopf unknown books
19799027609London: Jonathan Cape 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st UK edition. Signed by Lessing on the title page. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape 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
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
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
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
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
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
