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19402282990Lane Publishing Co./ Sunset Magazine 1940. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ross Sinclair. Light stain along bottom edge of jacket front a few faint smudges on jacket sticker on front jacket flap. 1940 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Introduction by Bruno Lessing. The contributors are all famous people: John Steinbeck Sinclair Lewis Gertrude Stein Alfred Lunt Christopher Morley Ben Hecht Julian Street. Other contributors include: Walt Disney Lowell Thomas H.L. Mencken J. Edgar Hoover Upton Sinclair The Duke of Kent Louis Untermeyer Thornton Wilder Rube Goldberg etc. Lane Publishing, Co./ Sunset Magazine hardcover books
196733604Washington DC: National Gallery of Art 1967. Softcover. VG light wear to cover. Pale blue ill. wraps. 261 pp. 261 bw plates. Comprised of essay descriptively annotated catalog entries and illustrations. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington D C: National Gallery of Art December 3 1967 to January 7 1968. National Gallery of Art unknown books
195351515London: Michael Joseph 1953. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in silver and green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 89-352pp. Crown a bit pushed lower right corner of front board gently bumped moderate offsetting to endpapers with some scattered foxing to preliminary leaves and text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d net gently spine-sunned modestly shelfworn with several closed tears and attendant creases scattered foxing and a triangular chip to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good. Collection of five short novels set in her native continent: A Home for the Highland Cattle The Other Woman Eldorado The Antheap and Hunger. Michael Joseph unknown books
195367135London: Michael Joseph 1953. First edition. 352 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light chipping to base and crown of spine and tips of flap folds. London: Michael Joseph unknown books
20032309037Paris: Telleri 2003. Large Softcover. Near Fine. Pages very faintly toned. 2003 Large Softcover. 223 pp. "Celebrates Florence's glorious feast of artistic architectural and sculptural creativity during this period of enlightened patronage. Telleri paperback books
1970456Philadelphia: Philobiblon Club 1970. cloth spine marbled paper over boards. Bird & Bull Press. 4to. cloth spine marbled paper over boards. 19 pages with a 16-page 8vo. facsimile of the original Fortsas Catalogue in a pocket in the inside rear cover. One of 250 numbered copies Taylor B2. This book was designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. The "Avis" and the text of M. Polain's newspaper account of the hoax are reproduced in facsimile and tipped-in. An important addition to the literature connected to this famous auction hoax. Fine condition. Philobiblon Club unknown books
1970285426North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press for the Philobiblon Club 1970. Hard Cover. Fine binding. #176 of 250 copies printed by the Bird & Bull Press; a catalog of fictitious books supposedly belonging to Jean Nepumucene Auguste Pichauld Comte de Fortsas; the bogus auction was an elaborate hoax perpetrated in Binche Belgium in 1840. With a catalogue of the supposed sale in facsimile in pocket in the rear. It was carried out by a retired military officer Renier Hubert Ghislain Chalon who delighted in pranks designed to befuddle the academic world. Chalon also published more than one false archeolgoical discovery. With facsimiles of the "Avis" canceling the sale and a three page article "Vente de Livres de M. De Fortsas" tipped in. In quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. Fine binding. Bird & Bull Press for the Philobiblon Club unknown books
1959040312München: Carl Hanser Verlag 1959. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Stammler. 2 vols. 1138; 1188p. dj. Carl Hanser Verlag unknown books
1968D16696New York: Ballantine Books 1968. First American Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Published year's earlier in the UK the first American edition is this paperback original. Ballantine U7088. With drawings by Paul Hogarth. Paper browned as expected. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. <br/><br/> Ballantine Books paperback books
1985ULESGOO01CCWDistributed by Random House 1985. Very Good. Lessing Doris May. Good Terrorist. New York: Distributed by Random House 1985. 375pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good with sunning to top edge of boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped corners. Distributed by Random House hardcover books
1958121135Leningrad-Moskva: Iskusstvo 1958. Hardcover. Clean tight copy but with some wear to dj. Beige cloth with gold decorative "E"; color-pictorial dj with Cyrillic lettering; 479 pp. plus errata sheet. Text in Russian. Catalogue of paintings in the Hermitage collection edited by one of the authorities on the works in the museum. Pieces are in sections by country: Italy France Switzerland. This is Volume I of a series. Iskusstvo hardcover books
1956139407Moskva: Gos. Izd-vo. Izobrazitelnogo iskusstva 1956. Hardcover. VG but front/top cover of box is separated from back/bottom cover. Cream paper wraps with decoration and maroon Cyrillic lettering; 31 pp.; 100 separate color plates some missing all in cream hardcover box. Dual text Russian/English. Very extensive text followed by a list of the plates described. The plates are full-page and full-color. The missing plates are Nos. 91-93 and 96-100 7 total. Gos. Izd-vo. Izobrazitelnogo iskusstva hardcover books
1958151938Leningrad-Moskva: Iskusstvo 1958. Hardcover. Both volumes very good and clean inside but with age-toned end papers and lightly soiled covers. Dust jackets torn at edges and with half to 1-inch pieces missing at both spine heads/tails. Still protective. Both volumes: beige cloth with gold decorative "E"; color-pictorial dj with Cyrillic lettering. Vol. I: 479 pp. with 373 bw illus.; Vol. II: 510 pp. with 383 bw illus. Both volumes with errata sheets tipped in at back. Yellow-colored page tops. Text in Russian. Catalogue of paintings in the Hermitage collection edited by one of the authorities on the works in the museum. Pieces are in sections by country: Italy France Switzerland. This is Volume I of a series. Iskusstvo hardcover books
195234372London: Boosey & Hawkes 1952. Octavo. 393 pp. Full blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. Binding slightly worn; spine slightly faded; lacking material in rear pocket. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
1984D16693New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Original cloth; dust jacket. Signed by the author as Doris Lessing. Book is in excellent condition. DJ with a couple of small chips tear at front flap and light edgewear at the top. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1984709744NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. 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
1984709743NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. Advance Review Copy. 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
1984709742NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. 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
1984WRCLIT26630New York: Knopf 1984. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition of this pseudonymous novel inscribed and signed by Lessing in 1986. Fine in lightly used dust jacket with sticker mark on front panel. Knopf hardcover books
1961007442Simon & Schuster 1961. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in like jacket.First Edition.Excellent copy. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
196135046NY: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Very good. First American Edition. Offsetting to endpapers else a very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket. <br/><br/> Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1961705807NY: Simon & Schuster. 1961. First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
19602696London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" San Francisco Chronicle. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. In swift barbed style in high hard farcical writing that is eruptively funny Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliantpiece of cultural interpretation an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read. "Eloquent.Wry and ribald.Lessing's impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make In Pursuit of the English readable and amusing" New York Times MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
1960125255New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early book from this important British writer. A clean near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a tear to the top and bottom of the front panel and some fading to the spine which also has a tiny chip at the base. Still a very nice copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
198372829Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1983. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Second edition second printing. "The survey of the Buddhist Tantras by Mkhas-grub-rje 1385-1438 A.D. is a sample of the rich literature on this subject in the Tibetan language." 382 p. Octavo. Original red cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped with some very mild bubbling in the laminate; otherwise very good. Motilal Banarsidass hardcover books
