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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 books
19889014479New York: Knopf 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
19882687NY: Knopf 1988. First edition. . Fine in very near fine dust jacket. NY: Knopf, unknown books
198825079New York: Alfred Knopf 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First American edition. A 133 pp novel by the author of the Children of Violence series of books. Quarter cloth over boards. A very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Lessing on the title page. Alfred Knopf 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
19885952NY: Knopf 1988. 1st ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/NF. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
1988705810NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1988. 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
1989ULESFIF01LRVintage Books 1989. Very Good. Lessing Doris May. The Fifth Child. New York City: Vintage Books 1989. 133pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with sporadic highlighting and marginalia in pen. Vintage Books paperback books
1983709745NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1983. 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
1983709747NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1983. 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
1970239316New York: Herder and Herder 1970. hardcover. near fine/very good-. Many illustrations in black & white and color. 330pp. Thick square 4to grey cloth edge worn and torn d.w. New York: Herder and Herder 1970. A near fine copy in a very good dust- wrapper.<br/><br/> Herder and Herder unknown books
196241742New York: McBride Books 1962. First American Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 382pp.; six leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos maps in text. Light dust-soil and shelf wear to jacket else Very Good or better. Though the American edition issued as usual in the British jacket with the Collins imprint at spine foot and original price 30s. Study of the economic and political state of the newly independent countries in postcolonial Africa. McBride Books unknown books
1962124501New York 1962. hardcover. Illus. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1962. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
19613136Washington DC: Library of Congress 1961. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 123 pp. with 13 plates. Original light-brown cloth front cover a little stained spine somewhat darkened. NOT ex-library! ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED READING LISTS. Rosenwald the great benefactor of the Library of Congress here compares two copies of the "Libro delli Comandamenti di Dio" perhaps the oldest recommended reading list printed in Florence in 1494. Naturally both copies belonged to Rosenwald. <br/><br/>¶ The title of the present work "The 19th Book - Tesoro de Poveri" comes from the fact that the number of "recommended" books varied between the two copies; in the first there were 18 in the second there were 19. The name of the 19th book is the "Elthesauro de poueri in medicicina" or "Tesoro de poveri." Rosenwald gives transcriptions of the original texts translations into English appendices and useful notes.<br/><br/>¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255 and with B.H. Breslauer's circled accession number in pencil inside front cover. Library of Congress unknown 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
200668697New York: Thames & Hudson 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Lessing 1923-2018 was the first photographer to arrive in Hungary and he documented the short-lived uprising and its aftermath in a series of world-famous photographs reproduced here in stunning duotone. They bring to life once more the hope and euphoria of the first days of the revolt so soon to be followed by the pain and punishment of its brutal suppression. 190 duotone illustrations with texts by George Konrad Francois Fejto Erich Lessing and Nicholas Bauquet. Inscribed by Lessing to cinematographer Virgil Mirano on the half-title with an invitation to a reception at USC's Doheny Memorial Library laid in. Oblong quarto. Original black paper-covered boards with gilt titles. Some mild edgewear to the boards and the pictorial dust jacket; else very good or better. Thames & Hudson hardcover books
2006225447New York: Thames & Hudson 2006. hardcover. fine/fine. Texts by George Konrad Francois Fejto Erich Lessing and Nicolas Bauquet. With 190 duotone illustrations. 249pp. Large square 4to d.w. New York: Thames & Hudson 2006. Fine in fine d.w.<br/><br/> Thames & Hudson unknown books
1975Embry 193205Aurora Art Publishers 1975. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover in fine faintly rubbed publisher's slipcase. Full page color reproductions. Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19759004008Leningrad: Aurora Art 1975. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original burnt orange cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Aurora Art hardcover books
1975Embry 38618Aurora Art Publishers N.d. circa 1975. First edition. Fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Full page color reproductions. Aurora Art Publishers, N.d. (circa 1975). First edition. unknown books
1975180056Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers 1975. Hardcover. VG some wear on dj edge Slip case is had fading and is torn at bottom. Tan slipcase. Mylar covered pictorial dj; green cloth covers gilt lettering. 27 205 pages : chiefly illustrations some color. Includes bibliographical references. Aurora Art Publishers hardcover books
