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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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In-12°, pp. (4),118, prima carta bianca, legatura in mezza pelle coeva, titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Una leggera mancanza di carta all'angolo superiore interno del piatto anteriore, nel complesso ottimo esemplare, fresco.
18014-0-279Königsberg, Nicolovius, 1801. kl 8°(18x 12cm), VIII, 397 S. und IV, 400 S., marmorierte Pappbände d. Zt. mit Rückenschildchen
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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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
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
