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2001101467Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Millenium Edition. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Easton Press hardcover
1537-22Berlin/Stettin Friedrich Nicolai 1794. 8°. XVIII 520 S. Mod. HLdr. mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschildchen u. Rückengoldprägung. Rotschnitt. Spiegel mit Exlibris Titelbl. mit altem verblassten Rundstempel. Vereinzelt etwas gebräunt. Sonst gut erhalten. - Sonderausgabe des Theil 27 von: "Gotthold Ephraim Lessings sämmtliche Schriften" VD18 11712422 Berlin/Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai 1794. unknown
18886Berlin 1784 Voß und Sohn. KARTONIERT regulär ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek 248 Seiten Einband bestaubt Rückenschild etwas berieben/unleserlich Ecken etwas berieben das Buch ist für das Alter akzeptabel erhalten --- HARDCOVER 235 pages excellent condition Berlin 1784 Voß und Sohn 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
190016611900. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Bibliographisches Institut; Leipzig und Wien n.d. c1900 Herausgegeben von Franz Bornmuller bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper over hard boards very good condition in all volumes some wear totop edge of spines previous owner's bookplate on fron 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
200818982Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press 2008. Hardback quarter cloth with patterned paper boards. 27cm x 14.5cm. In green cloth slipcase. 31pp 1. Frontis. No. 12 of 150 standard copies from a total limited edition of 176 copies. Signed by Doris Lessing. A wonderful clean copy. Signed by Author. Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Oak Tree Fine Press Hardcover
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
1910feb19590Lumen 1910. Used. 1910; Romanian Edition of Poezii Alese; For more details please contact me Lumen unknown
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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
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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
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9788571645844-11-30656COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS - GRUPO CIA DAS LETRAS. New. COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS - GRUPO CIA DAS LETRAS unknown
5131Engraved frontis. port. of Rosenwald. 4to orig. green morocco-backed decorated boards. Washington: Library of Congress 1991.<p> One of 300 deluxe copies specially bound and with the engraved portrait finely printed by W. Thomas Taylor. A really excellent collection of essays. Fine. unknown
2007Literature-Lessing-52007 Privately printed for HarperCollins 2007. Limited edition. One of 500 copies privately printed for the publisher. Paperbound with French flaps and yellow endpapers. Fine in wrappers. Octavo 22 pages. This special limited edition prints Doris Lessing s Nobel Lecture delivered upon receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. A reflective essay on storytelling memory and global inequality the lecture underscores Lessing s lifelong commitment to literature as both personal and political act. Doris Lessing's speech was delivered on her behalf by Nicholas Pearson at the Swedish Academy Stockholm on the 7th December 2007. Lessing was the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time being 88 years old when she won. Special Edition. Soft cover. As New. paperback
200732920London: Fourth Estate 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate 2007. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. <br /> <br /> The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing’s lifetime the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fourth Estate unknown
194222461Stockholm: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag 1942. Cloth. Very Good. The 1942 1st printing with its original wrappers bound in. Solid and VG in the publisher's tan cloth with title and author labels along the spine. Light wear at the spine ends and the tips very mild soiling to the panels. 32 crisp black-and-white plates laid-in fold-out map at the rear. "Reports from the Scientific Expediion to the North-Western Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin -The Sino-Swedish Expedition-- Publication #18. Part VIII -- Ethnography Vol. 1 Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag unknown
197428074New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Signed by Doris Lessing and Inscribed by the editor Paul Schlueter to the half-title page. A very good copy indeed in somewhat faded green cloth pink topstain gilt titles to the spine in a bright fresh dustwrapper with some light overall use. 8vo. 171 pp. Classic Lessing. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
