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19879780224024662-2025Jonathan Cape 1987. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Doris Lessing</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Jonathan Cape</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780224024662</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1987</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 95</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.</p> Jonathan Cape hardcover
19879780224024662-2025Jonathan Cape 1987. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Doris Lessing</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Jonathan Cape</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780224024662</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1987</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 95</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.</p> Jonathan Cape hardcover
1987Q-0060390778Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1987-10-14. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper Perennial Modern Classics paperback
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
19819780394749778-2025Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1981. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Doris Lessing</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780394749778</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1981</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 384</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents reports letters speeches and journal entries and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons galactic empires have struggled against one another and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation.</p> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group hardcover
19819780394749778-2025Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 1981. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Doris Lessing</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780394749778</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1981</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 384</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The first volume in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series is presented as a compilation of documents reports letters speeches and journal entries and purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta–clearly the planet Earth–to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons galactic empires have struggled against one another and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds. Johar an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation.</p> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group hardcover
1979212927New York: Knopf 1979. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small chip at spine crown. Knopf hardcover
1979146301New York: Knopf 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner imprint on FEP. Rubbing along panel edges. Scarce.; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 364 pages. Knopf hardcover
1979mon0000103677Jonathan Cape 1979T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.4173 in x 8.4252 in x 5.7480 in. Hardcover.rnMinor wear to the dust jacket.rnNo cover wear.rnClean unmarked text. rnTight binding. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1979Q-0224017675Jonathan Cape 1979-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Jonathan Cape hardcover
1978186997New York: Knopf 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Knopf hardcover
1978315490New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small open tears on spine crown. Small closed tear on bottom rear gutter. Sunning on spine.; 625 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1978323971New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; 625 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
197892413New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Closed tear to upper left corner of dust jacket. ; 8.60 X 6 X 1.70 inches; 625 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1988015838Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket Without Wear .First Edition.$16.95 On Flap. Signed On the Title-Page. Beautiful Copy. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
1988172975New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing on top text blcok edge. Stated First Edition with the price intact on the front flap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Alfred A Knopf Inc hardcover
198886417New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Edition with the price intact on the front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Alfred A. Knopf 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
1995Q-0060976675Harper Perennial 1995-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper Perennial paperback
1969Q-0261618407MacGibbon & Kee 1969-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
19690927H719386MacGibbon & Kee 1969-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1969 Macgibbon & Kee 1st edition 1st printing - double sided dust jacket - different graphics for each side - slight staining to page edge - otherwise dust jacket fine cover fine binding strong contents clean - a fine copy MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1962314359New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Small open tear on spine heel. Small closed tears on spine crown and top rear panel. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1962131132601London: Michael Joseph 1962. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. First UK edition first printing. Black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine lacking dust jacket. Michael Joseph hardcover
1962104131Simon and Schuster 1962 Presumably a book club edition with no indication of price on jacket flap but not with explicit BCE designation. Red publisher's top stain to top edge of text block. Yellow boards. Tight square binding. Very faint foxing to jacket at edge of jacket flaps and to fore edge; otherwise as new book. 568 pages. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1981Q-0553262106Bantam 1981-11-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bantam paperback
