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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
1989Q-0586089039HARPER COLLINS 1989-09-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HARPER COLLINS paperback
198815206New York: Alfred A Knopf 1988. First Edition. 8vo quarter navy cloth over boards in the dust jacket. 133 pp. A copy in fine condition. Alfred A Knopf hardcover
19881327Knopf New York 1988 First Edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A nice clean copy. FICTION. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Knopf (New York) hardcover
19881391302New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light bumping to head and tail of jacket spine. Light bumping and discoloration to tail of book spine. Slight age toning to paste downs. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Shelved in Room C. 1391302. Special Collections. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1988Q-0394571053Alfred A. Knopf 1988-03-12. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1989Q-0679721827Vintage 1989-05-14. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
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
1988003489London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mervyn Peake jacket art. The story is about a family's fifth child who is dramatically different from the four older siblings. A Lessing horror story. 133 pp. Tail of spine is ever so slightly rubbed. Priceclipped DJ has closed tear/ chip at head of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 133489. <br/> <br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover
1988001628New York: Knopf 1988. SIGNED by the author on the half title. A novel of a family falling apart because of an enormously difficult child played out against the background of a society unable to deal with its own brutal side. Very good faint foxing mostly on rough-cut side page edges otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Knopf Hardcover
197027896North Hills PA: Printed for the Philobiblion Club Bird & Bull Press 1970. First Thus. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Slim quarto 30.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed marbled boards spine lettered in black; 13pp.; 4 mounted facsimile plates; staplebound facsimile catalogue laid into chemise mounted inside rear cover. Fine. Facsimile of the hoax auction catalogue issued in 1840 organized by Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon. Printed for the Philobiblion Club, Bird & Bull Press unknown
197057563North Hills: Birf & Bull Press 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #142 of 250cc. Slim quart bound in publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with facsimile catalog in chemise in rear. Pages slightly tanned esle a very good example. <br/><br/> Birf & Bull Press hardcover
197016315North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text but fades as it gets away from boards appears to be offset from glue in binding. Otherwise in excellent condition. Neat previous owner's inscription on front free end paper. Number 56 of the 160 copies printed for members of the Philobiblon Club on handmade paper from a total edition of 250 copies. A fabulous story of one of the world's great biblio hoaxes. Neat inscription on front pastedown from Mort Whitehead to Robert K. Johnson. Bird & Bull Press hardcover
1969002229New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1969. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A PRISTINE BOOK with a priceclipped dJ. "This is the last of the five-novel "The Children of Violence" series by Doris Lessing. The series spans the life of Martha Quest from her birth and childhood in South Africa through her involvement with the Communist movement and to her death in a bleak prediction of the fate of society. In The Four-Gated City we find Martha as a middle-aged woman drifting in search of a purpose. She has "grown up" and out of the strong political leanings she had as a youth but ultimately finds herself involved in the new Communist movement of England circa 1950." R&R <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 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
19691391291New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 614 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$7.50". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to front of jacket near spine. Light bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text block. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Volume V of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. Shelved in Room C. 1391291. Special Collections. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
19691394859New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 613 3 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Blue spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$7.50" has mild shelving wear small tears along the joint corners stains along the extremities bending wear along the front flap and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild bending wear along the fore corners mild wear along the extremities and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges light foxing along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1394859. Special Collections. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969D16691New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth; dust-jacket. A nice copy lightly worn. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
196918417London: Macgibbon and Kee 1969. 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. Final novel in the acclaimed Martha Quest series. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Macgibbon and Kee hardcover
1969300301New York: Alfed A. Knopf 1969 New York: Alfed A. Knopf 1969 614 pp. Text is clean tight and unmarked. Endpapers have several small marks. Black cloth boards with silver stamping on spine are clean and square but have the faint traces of tape fore and aft. DJ is clean bright undamaged. not price-clipped. In mylar cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Alfed A. Knopf hardcover
19690076656New York: Knopf 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by the author to Canadian literary figure Greg Gatenby on the title page. 1969 First American edition. The final volume of Lessing's Children of Violence series. 613 pp. Hardcover black cloth. Very Good copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to the cloth; shelfwear along bottom edge; faint stain on the fly leaf; Gatenby's signature on the fly leaf; clean text. The DJ shows shallow loss and tearing at the spine ends; light edgewear; creasing to the rear inner flap. The DJ is now housed in a mylar wrap. Inscribed by Lessing. Digital images available upon request. Knopf hardcover
