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196120021Washington: The Library of Congress 1961. cloth. tall 8vo. cloth. 123 pages. First edition. With 13 plates. Reproduces the earliest known list of recommended reading. With a bookplate indicating that this book came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. The Library of Congress unknown books
196110218Washington: The Library of Congress 1961. cloth. tall 8vo. cloth. 123 pages. First edition. With 13 plates. Reproduces the earliest known list of recommended reading. The Library of Congress unknown books
196161643Washington:: Library of Congress. Near Fine. 1961. Hardcover. First edition thus. From the personal library of the late Renaissance historian and scholar Vincent Ilardi - bearing his name stamp on the front free endpaper. Near fine in tan cloth. No dust jacket. ; 123 pages . Library of Congress, hardcover books
1963020369NY: Simon & Schuster. 1963. The first American edition of this collection of stories her first book published after the controversy and success of The Golden Notebook. A bit of discoloration to the rear board; near fine in a very good mildly sunned dust jacket with some staining to the rear panel. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1963Embry 172174Simon & Schuster 1963. First edition first printing. Name blacked out on front free endpaper slight sunning to spine tips near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with slight sunning to spine panel and minor edgewear in mylar cover. Simon & Schuster, 1963. First edition, first printing. 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
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
1974WRCLIT48501New York: Knopf 1974. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. Edited and Introduced by Paul Schlueter. Vestiges of filing label across bottom edge spine faintly sunned very good. Knopf unknown books
1974705787NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1974. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1974705789NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1974. Very Good in Very Good price-clipped DJ. Remainder stamp on bottom edge. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1974705788NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1974. Very Good in Very Good price-clipped DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2016181263Waterville Maine: Colby College Museum of Art 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. dustjacket has creasing & light rubbing to corners; wear to back cover spine edges; back cover scratched. red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book vii 163 w/ color & bw illustrations. illustrated & red dustjacket w/ white & red printing. Produced and circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art folk art appealed to the middle-class Americans who were eager to express their identities interests and social ambitions through these decorative vernacular objects. This catalogue presents new research on the Colby College Museum of Art's important collection of paintings sculptures needleworks and works on paper by self-trained artists working primarily in the eastern part of the United States during the long nineteenth century. Essays by Seth A. Thayer Jr. and Elizabeth Finch investigate the formation evolving interpretation and intended uses of the American Heritage Collection of Edith Kemper Jetté and Ellerton Marcel Jetté - one of the earliest gifts to enter the Colby Museum and the basis of its folk art collection. A third essay by Tanya Sheehan explores the complex relationship between folk art fine art and American visual culture. More than sixty catalogue entries by scholars curators and Colby students identify previously unknown makers and subjects uncover new information about the construction and original contexts of works in the collection and enlarge our understanding of what these artworks meant for the people who made and displayed them.--FirstSearch. Colby College Museum of Art hardcover books
1962124450New York: John Day 1962. hardcover. very good/very good-. 207 pages 8vo black cloth d.w. New York: John Day Company 1962. A very good copy in a very good- dust wrapper.<br/><br/> John Day unknown books
199251387New York: HarperCollins 1992. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 125 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo 24cm; burgundy cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's decorative slipcase. Fine and unread still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap with the original price stickers on rear cover. Handsome edition of this memoir by the Zimbabwean Nobel Laureate. HarperCollins unknown books
1993ULESAFR00DGHarper Perennial 1993. Very Good. Lessing Doris. African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1993. xii 442pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with a remainder mark on the bottom edge. Harper Perennial paperback books
1993ULESAFR00FPHarper Perennial 1993. Very Good. Lessing Doris. African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1993. xii 442pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight rubbing to edges. Harper Perennial paperback books
19922202694HarperCollins 1992. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First U.S. edition. Page ridges toned and foxed. HarperCollins hardcover books
1992002285New York: HarperCollins 1992. Copy Number 25 of 125 in a Specially Bound Slipcased First U.S. Edition. There were also 26 copies lettered A-Z. As New in As New decorative slipcase. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION. Limited Signed First Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket As Issued. HarperCollins Hardcover books
1992278793New York. : HarperCollins Publishers. 1992. . 1st Edition. hardcover quarter black cloth over white boards copper foil spine title. . A very good copy in a slightly edgeworn dustjacket. . 8vo. Signed by the author on the half-title page. HarperCollins Publishers. hardcover books
196517515New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. First American edition. Cloth. Faint bump to lower spine otherwise a near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket with rubbing edgewear and a few small abrasions but still quite intact and presentable. 636 pp. 8vo. "This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection This Was The Old Chief's Country unavailable in America; the four long tales about Africa from Five also unavailable; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories never before collected" from the front panel. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
200821411NY: HarperCollins 2008. First US edition first prnt. Originally published by Fourth Estate in the same year. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Black & white photographs. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's combination of novella and memoir of her parents' lives affected by WW I. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
2008Embry 196447HarperCollins 2008. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. HarperCollins, 2008. First edition, first printing. unknown books
195934834New York: Print Council of America 1959. Softcover. G Whole book has aged slightly; illus. are still nice. Black & cream & color illus. wraps. Unpaginated. 62 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of exhibitions of "62 etchings engravings woodcuts lithographs and serigraphs were executed by 55 American between January 1956 and December 1958. . These prints were selected from 2054 submitted by 639 artists by a jury of five members of the Print Council's Board of Directors. . This book is offered as a representative cross-section of the best work done in this field in these three years." foreword Includes brief bios of the artists at the rear of the book. Uncommon. Print Council of America unknown books
1962125805New York: Print Council of America 1962. Softbound. VG- color spine and top faded age spots on page edges. Blue glossy wraps with etching pattern 72 pp 55 BW images. Exhibition catalogue with 55 BW pieces by 48 artists. Includes brief artist bios at the rear of the book. From the foreward: "The many apporaches reflected in this exhibition are particularly worthy of note since the prints of only forty-eight artists are shown" with fairness to the geographical U.S. distribution of the represented artists. Print Council of America unknown books
177833323Braunschweig: Waisenhausbuchhandlung 1778. Small 8vo 17.5 cm; 7". 11 numbers in one volume each 16 pp. <br><br>Lessing was one of the fathers of German Idealism during the Enlightenment and among other things is remembered for having provided the foundation of a modern philosophy of religion" Yasukata Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment p. 89. Johann Melchior Goeze 171786 a contemporary of Lessing was a spiritual leader of the Lutheran Church in Germany and familiar with literature; he took up writing histories and apologetics and because of their differing views on religion and ideals of the Enlightenment he and Lessing entered into a debate.<br>Â Â Â Â While the two are said to have remained cordial the debate was so "bitter" that the Duke of Brunswick Lessing's supporter "intervened silencing Lessing" Oxford Companion to German Literature 2nd ed. p. 554!<br>Â Â Â Â Printed here are Lessing's portions of the eleven exchanges in that debate. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Goedeke IV 447; Holzmann 2383. Recent boards covered in brown paper specked with black in the style of the era; age-toning and some dampstaining not beyond "typical." Overall a good copy of a complete set of Lessing's eleven arguments. [Waisenhausbuchhandlung] hardcover books
