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1987ANAIS-0060390743Harper & Row 1987-01-01. 1st U.S. ed. hardcover. Good. 15.5x2.8x28.2. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Harper & Row hardcover
19871400559New York New York: Harper & Row 1987. First US Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo 78 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price uncut: "$14.95" on front flap has mild age-toning along head edges of flaps. Boards fully bound in publisher's brown cloth has mild shelving wear along spine head and tail mild bumping to tail fore corners and fraying to front tail fore corner. Textblock edges have mild foxing; endpapers have light foxing and age-toning along gutters. Signed flat on title page by Doris Lessing. Shelved Room C. 1400559. Special Collections. Harper & Row hardcover
198622215London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224024663 . A charming first Impression of the first edition in just about Fine condition with very slightly yellowed pages edges as is common with this title in like lightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Dedicated to fellow author Greg Gatenby and SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. From Gatenby's library with his signature on the fly leaf. An attractive association; Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing's attempt to explain "why human beings continue to make the same mistakes. This original and important work of Lessing underlines the necessity to retain an independent frame of mind to fight received opinion and to resist the general drift into apathy". from the dustjacket ; 8vo; 95 1 pages; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
197954730Jonathan Cape: London 1979. First edition & 1st printing. Hardcover. First volume in the five volume Canopus in Argos: Archives sequence of sf novels. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Jonathan Cape: London hardcover
19791391304New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1979. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Octavo 319 pages. In Good condition. Yellow spine with black lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear bending wear along the rear fore head corner stains throughout and small tears along the spine corners. Textblock is lightly cocked has bending wear from pages 191-197 moderate wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1391304. Special Collections. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1979299617knopf 1979 - 1981 five first editions hardcover. fine books fine jackets some spine bumping one store stamp inside one bookplates one review slip knopf hardcover
197934812CAPE JONATHAN 1979. 1.ND. softcover. Canopus im Argos: Archive CAPE, JONATHAN 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
19563879London: Michael Joseph 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of this early novel from Lessing. Near fine in black buckram with white lettering on spine remaining bright. Near fine jacket shows some wear and very shallow chippinng/rubbing at spine ends and corners and light toning else fine. Original price of 15s in tact. Michael Joseph hardcover
1956320681London: Michael Joseph 1956. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 334pp. Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket Michael Joseph hardcover
1956HALL502800Hardback. 1956. Sl. browning to end-papers else book very good. Dust jacket sl. worn at head else very good. . hardcover
1908188715Leipzig: Baumgartner 1908. Hardcover. Fair heavy soilign and shelfwear to boards spine missing pages are age toned plates 1 and 2 have a small tear along top edges plates are otherwise clear and all are present. Oversized green and gray cloth boards; gold and black illustrated end papers; 4 pp followed by 104 bw plates. Text is in German. Ansbach Castle: Baroque and Rococo decorations from the 18th century. Includes an introductory foreword by the editor. Baumgartner hardcover
1906N615Mnchen: Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1906. First Edition . Half Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 482pp. Spine expertly repaired. First and last pages with minimal foxing. Endpapers brittle withon spot of marginal loss otherwise a very good clean copy. Very rare first edition. <br/> <br/> Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung hardcover
1955050958New York: Scientific American Inc. 1955. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near Fine <br/> <br/> Scientific American, Inc. paperback
1954044416New York: Scientific American Inc. 1954. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good Wear Single Vertical Crease To Front Cover Fray Along Bottom Spine Edge. <br/> <br/> Scientific American, Inc. paperback
1969105098E.P. Saie 1969. Hardcover. Like New. Italian translation of Entdecker des Weltraums; 176 p. clean and unmarked anywhere on glossy unaged paper; zodiac end pages; lavishly illustrated; binding tight; boards and glossy photographic d.j. without discernible wear. Plain cardboard slipcase sunned at edges. 11" x 14". Additional postage. E.P. Saie hardcover
1964572040Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1964. ex-library; cover cocked & lightly rubbed; corners & spine ends lightly bumped. hardcover. Good. Georg Olms hardcover
1984Q-0394723864Vintage 1984-03-12. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
198747384FISCHER 10/1987. 1. softcover. Canopus im Argos: Archive Falsa ISBN: 3-596-09150-X! Maloftege! FISCHER paperback
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
19863197564Barcelona.: Minotauro. 1986. Hardcover. Sobrecubierta deslucida. Good. 21 cm. 512 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Colección 'Canopus en Argos archivos' numero coleccion1. Lessing Doris May 1919-2013. Traducción de Matilde Horne. Traducción de : Shikasta. Horne Matilde. 1914-2008. Canopus in Argos archives. Español. numero coleccion 1 . Sobrecubierta deslucida. ISBN: 8445070436 Literatura inglesa. Novela. Siglo XX. 820-31"19" 821.111-3 Minotauro. hardcover
19863736675Barcelona.: Minotauro. 1986. Hardcover. Good. 21 cm. 512 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Colección 'Canopus en Argos archivos' numero coleccion1. Lessing Doris May 1919-2013. Traducción de Matilde Horne. Traducción de : Shikasta. Horne Matilde. 1914-2008. Canopus in Argos archives. Español . ISBN: 8445070436 Literatura en lengua inglesa 820-31"19" Minotauro. hardcover
197919551London: Jonathan Cape 1979. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN COPY WITH A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. First book in the series Canopies in Argos. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Jonathan Cape hardcover
198747376FISCHER 10/1987. 1. softcover. Canopus im Argos: Archive Ungekürzte Ausgabe! FISCHER paperback