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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
196917307New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first American edition/first printing in Fine condition with bright yellow top-stain ever so slightly toned in very Nearly Fine slightly rubbed dust-jacket with a 1/4" closed tear in the back; The Four-Gated City was praised as Nobel Prize laureate Lessing's most important work since the Golden Notebook. In the four previous novels set in Africa and looking back to the past Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch here she carries her protagonist Martha Quest to London and the world - into the present and the future ; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf 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
198265182NY: Montemora Foundation 1982. First edition. 78 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers with faint foxing along top edge. NY: Montemora Foundation unknown books
198219084NY: Montemora Foundation 1982. 8vo pages not numbered. Paper wraps. VG. Poems. Montemora Foundation unknown books
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 books
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
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
17-3504Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1953. 8vo. 119 pp. Soft cover. Very Good. Typographical paper wraps. Some shelf wear. Illustrated plates throughout.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953. paperback
1931868174.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0007302061.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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