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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest
Plume 1970. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor general wear pages lightly toned. 1970 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. "The heroine of this powerful searching novel is a passionate and intelligent young woman whose ideals are totally at odds with the life she observes around her. The daughter of provincial parents Martha Quest has been raised in a small-minded town in Central Africa - a community where hypocrisy intolerance and mindless traditionalism prevail. The book which traces Martha from adolescence through an ill-conceived marriage depicts her abrasive relationships with her elders her contemporaries and society as a whole. Martha Quest is a true child of this century. Her personal conflicts mirror the convulsions and aspirations of our time: her successful rebellion her liberation and its tragic failures and finally her despair transmuted into a relentless determination to understand life. Plume paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2296348 ISBN : 0452259681 9780452259683
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest
HarperPerennial 1995. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Martha Quest. New York NY: HarperPerennial 1995. 333pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight moisture damage to top of last several pages. HarperPerennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESMAR01FP ISBN : 0060976667 9780060976668
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City.
London: Michael Joseph 1952-1969. First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 796
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest Signed
London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. First UK edition of the South Rhodesian author's uncommon second book. The first novel featuring her rebel character Martha Quest. A handsome near fine copy in green cloth binding in a sharp unclipped dustwrapper. The wrapper is mildly age spotted on the verso and a very small portion of the rear flap This copy has been SIGNED by the author on the title page. A terrific collector's copy. <br/><br/> Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23318
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Lessing Doris
Martha Quest.
London: Michael Joseph 1952. First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear. Jacket design by Peter Rudland. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 16012
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LESSING Doris
Memoirs of a Survivor
Don Mills:: General Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0773600388 . A novel. First Canadian edition. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . General Publishing, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 65574 ISBN : 0773600388 9780773600386
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LESSING Doris
ORIGINAL EARLY PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED; offered with a TLS and the original mailing envelope
4-1/2 x 6 inch photograph taken by Hayrightson ca 1952. The photo is signed by the photographer in pencil and by Lessing on the flap. Included also is the TLS from Lessing dated October 26 1952 to Mr. H. A. Rappaport thanking him for his kind letter and presenting the photograph. Wikipedia: "Doris May Lessing CH née Tayler; 22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013 was a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing 1950 the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence 1952-69 The Golden Notebook 1962 The Good Terrorist 1985 and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives 1979-1983.Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize the Swedish 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 eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.In 2001 Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008 The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 56779
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Lessing Doris
Particularly Cats
New York: Simon and Schuster 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing stated. Dust jacket is wrapped in a clear protective sleeve- jacket price not clipped. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : SKU1029417 ISBN : 067155476X 9780671554767
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Lessing Doris
Particularly Cats
New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9014477
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LESSING Doris
Particularly Cats. and Rufus
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. 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
Bookseller reference : 705798
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Lessing Doris
Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
Harper Perennial 1992. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Real Thing: Stories and Sketches. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1992. 214pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges and yellowing of pages. Harper Perennial paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESREA01FP ISBN : 0060924179 9780060924171
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Lessing Doris
STORIES
NY: 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
Bookseller reference : 80913 ISBN : 0394500091 9780394500096
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LESSING Doris
Stories
NY: 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
Bookseller reference : 705796
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Lessing Doris
The Diaries Of Jane Somers.
London: 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
Bookseller reference : 50071
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Lessing Doris
THE FIFTH CHILD
NY: 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
Bookseller reference : 6145 ISBN : 0394571053 9780394571058
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Lessing Doris
THE FIFTH CHILD
New 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
Bookseller reference : 3304
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LESSING Doris
THE FIFTH CHILD
London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First edn. 8vo pp. 133. A fine copy in little wrinkled dj. A horror story. Jonathan Cape unknown books
Bookseller reference : 19616
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Lessing Doris
The FIFTH CHILD
NY: Knopf 1988. 1st ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. NF/NF. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 5952
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LESSING Doris
The Fifth Child
NY: 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
Bookseller reference : 705810
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Lessing Doris
The Fifth Child Signed
New 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
Bookseller reference : 25079
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Lessing Doris
The Fifthe Child
New York: Knopf 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9014479 ISBN : 0394571053 9780394571058
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Lessing Doris
The Four-Gated City
New 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 books
Bookseller reference : D16691
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LESSING Doris
The Four-Gated City
New York: Knopf 1969. hardcover. fine/very good. 614pp. cloth d.w.New York: Knopf 1969. First Edition.<br/><br/> Autographed by Lessing. The white dust wrapper is slightly toned and minimally chipped at the top edge.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 283135
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Lessing Doris
THE FOUR-GATED CITY
NY: Knopf 1969. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Cloth spine ends pushed two small stains on foreedge and a faint small dampstain on the topedge; dustjacket with edgewear mostly at spine ends few small closed edge tears and faint beginning edge toning mostly on the interior edges. Very Good condition in a Good dustjacket with an archival cover. The final volume in Lessing's "Children of Violence" novels. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2144
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LESSING Doris
THE FOUR-GATED CITY
NY: Knopf 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 614. VG in chipped and soiled dj. Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 29658
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Lessing Doris
The Four-Gated City Signed
New York: Alfred Knopf 1969. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. First American edition. Part of the author's celebrated Children of Violence series of novels. 614 pp plus author note at rear of volume. A very good copy in black cloth binding in very good price-intact dustwrapper. Small stain to verso of wrapper and light crease to front flap. This copy has been SIGNED by Lessing and is uncommon thus. Alfred Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 24500
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Lessing Doris
The Four-Gated City: A Complete Novel from Doris Lessing's Masterwork Children of Violence
Plume 1976. Very Good. Lessing Doris. The Four-Gated City: A Complete Novel from Doris Lessing's Masterwork Children of Violence. New York: Plume 1976. 614pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with creased spine and bumped corners. Plume paperback books
Bookseller reference : UTHE01LW
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook
London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Fine. First edition first printing. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Fine with light dust-soiling to top edge of textblock. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel. Michael Joseph unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140941114
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook
London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed and dated by Doris Lessing on the title page. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light sunning to cover former owner name to front paste down hinge at title page lightly exposed and sporadic marking throughout text and to rear free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning edge wear and soiling. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel. Michael Joseph unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140941022
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook
London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Very Good. Advance uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's beige printed wraps. Very Good. Creases to spine rubbing to joints wraps creased light streaking to front cover. Textblock edges dust-soiled and lightly foxed. One of Lessing's best-known works rare in this advance format. Michael Joseph unknown books
Bookseller reference : 140937803
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook Signed
London: Michael Joseph 1962. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . First UK edition of the author's best known work. A Burgess 99 title. An attractive very good to near fine copy in brown cloth binding. Gilt lettering bright and unflaked at spine. In a lightly worn dustwrapper with original 30s net price on the front flap. Small closed tear at bottom of the rear panel. SIGNED by Lessing and uncommon thus. A 20th century literary highspot of high caliber. Michael Joseph unknown books
Bookseller reference : 23319
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. "I looked at her and thought: That's my child my flesh and blood. But I couldn't feel it. She said again: `Play mummy.' I moved wooden bricks for a house but like a machine. Making myself perform every movement. I could see myself sitting on the floor the picture of a `young mother playing with her little girl.' Like a film shot or a photograph." These words exemplify the themes Lessing struggled with in The Golden Notebook. They question the notion of identity. In the above quote the protagonist cannot reconcile who she needs to be to remain healthy and whole with what the ideologies of society require her to be. This obsession with constructing a comprehensive sense of identity leads to an infinite fictionalization of the protagonist's life. Lessing's work is not only a significant feminist polemic; it is a multilayered glance into the political climate of the 1960's. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 114758
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Lessing Doris
The Golden Notebook.
London: Michael Joseph 1962. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to the extremities. Jacket design by William Belcher. "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessings most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women" Elizabeth Hardwick New York Times Book Review. Michael Joseph hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 110932
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LESSING Doris
The Good Terrorist
New York: Knopf 1985. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. New York: Knopf 1985. First Edition.<br/><br/> Autographed by Lessing.<br/><br/> Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 247433
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Lessing Doris
The Good Terrorist
New York: Knopf 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The dust jacket has minor wear to the head of the spine. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9014691 ISBN : 0394543394 9780394543390
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Lessing Doris
THE GOOD TERRORIST
NY: Knopf 1985. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Faint beginning board edge toning and spine bottom edge cloth lightly wrinkled; dustjacket with few tiny edge creases and small soil spot on rear panel. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 60816 ISBN : 0394543394 9780394543390
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LESSING Doris
The Good Terrorist Limited Edition Signed
London: Jonathan Cape / London Limited Editions 1985. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.190. Octavo 20.5cm; marbled paper-covered boards and hunter green cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original glassine overlay; iv45-3702pp. Fine in a Fine glassine. Handsome edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's ninth novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985. Jonathan Cape / London Limited Editions unknown books
Bookseller reference : 53610
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Lessing Doris
The Good Terrorist: A Novel
Knopf 1985-01-01. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 0394543394 First American Edition. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : SKU1035246 ISBN : 0394543394 9780394543390
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Lessing Doris
The Grandmothers
HarperCollins 2003. Very Good. Lessing Doris. The Grandmothers. New York NY: HarperCollins 2003. 311pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Small area of abrasion and hole from removal of security device to bottom of last page near hinge. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. HarperCollins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : ULESGRA00FP ISBN : 0060530103 9780060530105
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Lessing Doris
THE GRANDMOTHERS
NY: HarperCollins 2004. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1090910 ISBN : 0060530103 9780060530105
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Lessing Doris
The Grandmothers Signed
New York: HarperCollins 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Stated first American edition. 311 pp. A collection of four short novels. Fine condition in fine unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Lessing on the title page. HarperCollins hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23489
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Lessing Doris
The Grass Is Singing Signed
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company No Date. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Later reprint edition of the author's first book. Entirely different dustwrapper design than the 1950 original. A very good copy in green cloth binding in very good clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 23664
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Lessing Doris
The Habit of Loving
Panther 1977. Very Good. Lessing Doris. The Habit of Loving. Frogmore: Panther 1977. 252pp. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Panther paperback books
Bookseller reference : ULESHAB00bh1 ISBN : 0586020063 9780586020067
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LESSING Doris
The Habit of Loving
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 67-278pp. Hint of a forward lean tiny tear at crown else clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 15s net spine-sunned lightly shelfworn and a bit dusty with a few tiny nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. Lessing's third short story collection. MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
Bookseller reference : 51516
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LESSING Doris
The Habit of Loving
New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1957. 1957. First American edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Joel Burton unclipped. Very good. 311 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company [1957]. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 229452
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LESSING Doris
The Habit of Loving
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First. hardcover. fine/fine. d.w. London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. Fine copy in a bright pictorial jacket.<br/><br/> MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
Bookseller reference : 137490
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Lessing Doris
THE HABIT OF LOVING
London: Macgibbon & Kee. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. Black boards have gilt stamping to spine a Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. . Macgibbon & Kee hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 52298
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Lessing Doris
THE MAKING OF THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR PLANET 8
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. Octavo cloth. First edition. Fourth book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 412. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with 12x20 v-chip from bottom edge of front panel and some general light dust soiling. #131202 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 131202 ISBN : 039451906X 9780394519067
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LESSING Doris
THE MAKING OF THE REPRESENTATIVE FOR PLANET 8
NY: Knopf 1982. First Edition. 8vo pp. 144. Canopus in Argos: archives. Fourth volume. Top edge little spotted remainder mark on bottom o/w a VG tight copy in little scuffed and soiled dj. A novel. Knopf unknown books
Bookseller reference : 42420
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Lessing Doris
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
London: Jonathan Cape 1982. First edition. Blue boards spine gilt fine in dust jacket. Fourth in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9429
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