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19969014478New York: Harper Collins 1996. Advanced Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine slipcase. The slipcase has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Harper Collins hardcover books
1996112755New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1996. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Another well received novel from this important British writer. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1995020388NY: HarperCollins. 1995. The hardcover advance reading copy. Fingerprint on verso of front flyleaf; else fine in a fine pictorial slipcase. An unusual and elaborate format for an advance copy. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. HarperCollins hardcover books
199623917New York: HarperCollins 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Stated first U. S. edition. A novel by the author of Shikasta. 352 pp. A near fine copy in clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. HarperCollins hardcover books
1999ULESMAR00HMRHarperPerennial 1999. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Mara and Dann: An Adventure. New York: HarperPerennial 1999. 407pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled cover and subtly bumped edges. HarperPerennial paperback books
1999SKU1035244Harper Perennial 1999-12-22. PAPERBACK. Good. 006093056X Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Harper Perennial paperback books
199993143New York: HarperFlamingo: 1999. 1999. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #93143 HarperFlamingo: [1999]. unknown books
1999040904New York: HarperFlamingo 1999. 1st American Edition. viii 407p. map dj near fine. HarperFlamingo unknown books
19702296348Plume 1970. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor general wear pages lightly toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. "The heroine of this powerful searching novel is a passionate and intelligent young woman whose ideals are totally at odds with the life she observes around her. The daughter of provincial parents Martha Quest has been raised in a small-minded town in Central Africa - a community where hypocrisy intolerance and mindless traditionalism prevail. The book which traces Martha from adolescence through an ill-conceived marriage depicts her abrasive relationships with her elders her contemporaries and society as a whole. Martha Quest is a true child of this century. Her personal conflicts mirror the convulsions and aspirations of our time: her successful rebellion her liberation and its tragic failures and finally her despair transmuted into a relentless determination to understand life. Plume paperback books
1995ULESMAR01FPHarperPerennial 1995. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Martha Quest. New York NY: HarperPerennial 1995. 333pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight moisture damage to top of last several pages. HarperPerennial paperback 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
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
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
197565574Don Mills:: General Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0773600388 . A novel. First Canadian edition. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . General Publishing, hardcover books
567794-1/2 x 6 inch photograph taken by Hayrightson ca 1952. The photo is signed by the photographer in pencil and by Lessing on the flap. Included also is the TLS from Lessing dated October 26 1952 to Mr. H. A. Rappaport thanking him for his kind letter and presenting the photograph. Wikipedia: "Doris May Lessing CH née Tayler; 22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013 was a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing 1950 the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence 1952-69 The Golden Notebook 1962 The Good Terrorist 1985 and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives 1979-1983.Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize the Swedish 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 eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.In 2001 Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008 The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 unknown books
1967SKU1029417New York: Simon and Schuster 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing stated. Dust jacket is wrapped in a clear protective sleeve- jacket price not clipped. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
19679014477New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1991705798NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
1992ULESREA01FPHarper Perennial 1992. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Real Thing: Stories and Sketches. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1992. 214pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges and yellowing of pages. Harper Perennial paperback books
197880913NY: Knopf 1978. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning board edge toning; dustjacket with minimal edgewear mostly at the spine ends beginning toning at extermities and spine small closed tear on the front panel bottom edge and a small chip at the spine topedge. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Tight clean copy of a major collection of Lessing's early stories. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
1978705796NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1978. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf paperback 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
19886145NY: Knopf 1988. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning foxing on foreedge and topedge; dustjacket with interior edge toning not apparent on the outside and minimal rubbing on rear panel. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's ninth novel; her seventh without a pseudonym. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
19883304New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Preceded the British Jonathan Cape edition. Horror. A family's fifth child is a monster. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-166. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3304 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
198819616London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First edn. 8vo pp. 133. A fine copy in little wrinkled dj. A horror story. Jonathan Cape unknown books
