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1979ref. 008312Random House Inc. DJ in archival cover. Stated first American edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979. Random House Inc hardcover
ref. 0586046011.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1994ref. 158290New York: Harpercollins 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches; 419 pages. Harpercollins hardcover
1994ref. 107093New York: Harpercollins 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. First U. S. Edition. Scuffing to page edges. Shelf wear to panels. Minor wear to crown and heel.; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.50 inches; 419 pages. Harpercollins hardcover
1964ref. 33311New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1964 1966. First Printings stated. Four volumes in two; octavos 22cm.; publisher's boards in unclipped dust jackets; 605 544pp. Light wear to board and jacket margins brief tape repair to verso of spine ends of Vol. 1/2 corners bumped else a Very Good bright and sound set. Bookplate signed by the author laid into the earlier volume. Omnibus editions of the first four Children of Violence novels: Martha Quest 1952 A Proper Marriage 1954 A Ripple from the Storm 1958 and Landlocked 1965. The final entry The Four-Gated City would appear in 1969. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1988Doris Lessing Il diario di Jane Somers. , Feltrinelli 1988, piatti e dorso segnati dal tempo, con fioriture. tagli bruniti, con qualche piccola gora. Interno ingiallito, con una firma a penna nella seconda pagina. Buono (Good) . 254 8807810220
1961ref. 007442Simon & 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
2007Brossura in cartoncino flessibile lucido, dalla copertina illustrata. Buono lo stato di conservazione, pagine perfettamente tenute, ossidate da tonalità seppia, bruniti i tagli., con numerose fotografie in bianco e nero, fuori testo, con didascalie. Traduzione di Maria Antonietta Saracino. Volume n. MCMLVIII ( 1958 ) della collana. Numero pagine 486. USATO
2007ref. 32920London: Fourth Estate 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate 2007. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing’s lifetime the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fourth Estate unknown books
1988ref. 015838Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket Without Wear .First Edition.$16.95 On Flap. Signed On the Title-Page. Beautiful Copy. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1962ref. 26761New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First U.S. Edition stated First Printing. Octavo. 568 pp. Printed dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black. Red topstain and endpapers. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general rubbing and toning. Slight lean to boards shelfwear corners bumped and a few minor patches of white discoloration along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1962ref. 49611London: Michael Joseph 1962. Very Good/Very Good. London: Michael Joseph 1962. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher's dark brown cloth in typographic dust jacket with 30s net price intact; 5671pp. Jacket shows a short closed tear at bottom rear and another along top corner fold with shallow chips at a couple fold ends and some general toning / smudging to surface and down spine. Boards square with a small blended inkstain to rear along spine and a touch of fading along edges. Light toning to endpapers and half title. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Michael Joseph unknown books
1952ref. 35242New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Very Good/Good. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Small octavo 19cm; publisher's red cloth in beige dust jacket; 256pp. Price-clipped dust jacket is edgeworn and a bit smudged with darkening to spine and a failed tape repair with tear at top of rear flap fold. Boards square with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some dulling to spine lettering. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Lessing's first collection of short stories and second book overall. First published in the UK by Michael Joseph the year prior. Burkom A2. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown books
1980ref. 885T24London: Jonathan Cape; Harper Collins 1980-1992. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". None. A very smart collection of first edition volumes from British Zimbabwean novelist Doris Lessing. Three volumes. First editions. Written by Doris Lessing a British-Zimbabwean novelist awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature who was the oldest person to ever receive the prize at age 87. This set includes: The Marriage Between Zones Three Four and Five 1980. Volume two from the Canopus in Argos: Archives series of science fiction novels. Depicting the influence of unknown higher powers on interactions between a series of civilizational "zones" that encircle the planet Earth. The Sirian Experiments 1981. Volume three from the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. This novel focuses on the history of Earth from the perspective of visitors from Sirius. These visitors come from a highly managed society with fascist overtones that attempts experiments on lesser civilisations. London Observed 1992. A observation of the city of London England and its inhabitants from the shrewd and compassionate eye of an artist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original dust wrappers are price-clipped other than London Observed which remains unclipped. Wrappers are very smart with light shelf wear only. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Jonathan Cape; Harper Collins hardcover
1963ref. 219701New York: Simon & Schuster 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1954ref. cfe20298London: Michael Joseph 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Peter Rudland. A near-fine copy in a very good unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by Doris Lessing on the title page--signature only without any inscriptions. A tight and clean copy with an unmarked interior with very light toning to the black cloth boards--although the gilt lettering to the spine is bright. The dustjacket is unclipped and very good--with a little toning and a touch of edgewear and a couple of small closed end tears. Will be well packed with a new clear acrylic dustjacket covering and shipped in a box. Scarce signed Michael Joseph hardcover
1954ref. 911T30London: Michael Joseph 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of this second novel in the Children of Violence series from British novelist Doris Lessing. First edition. The second novel in the Children of Violence series. Continuing the semi-autobiographical story this novel reveals Martha's growing discontent with her marriage to Douglas and the arrival of her baby yet another threat to her freedom. We also see the lead up to and the outbreak of the Second World War and with it Douglas's departure to the army. Written by Doris May Lessing a British novelist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original black cloth binding. Externally very smart with light shelf wear only. Front hinge just starting but firm. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities resulting in light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd mark to the panels. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Michael Joseph hardcover
1995ref. 6B-J0R1-BBROHarper Perennial 1995-09-01. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1954 Michael Joseph UK hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - minor wear to edge of dust jacket now in mylar cover minor staining to page edge - otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean - RARE - enjoy Harper Perennial paperback
1958ref. Product_181HARDCOVER 1958 FIRST EDITION. NO DUST JACKET. FOXING DUE TO AGE. NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS-SOME SCUFFS ON BOOK EDGES-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE Martha Quest the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series has been acclaimed as one of the greatest Fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa following Martha through World War II a grotesque second marriage and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes passions and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa. A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels each a masterpiece in its own right and taken together an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century. MICHAEL JOSEPH hardcover
1977ref. 756P53London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1977. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9" by 5.5". None. Two volumes from Doris Lessing's autobiographical series 'Children of Violence' spanning the whole life of the protagonist Martha Quest. In the original unclipped dustwrappers.Two volumes from Lessing's popular 'Children of Violence' cycle a semi-autobiographical series of five novels following Martha Quest from her adolescence to old age.'A Ripple in the Storm' is the third novel in the series 'Landlocked' is the fourth.Part of the 1977 reprint series.Doris Lessing was a Nobel Prize winning novelist one of the greatest post-war writers of Britain. 'Landlocked' in the original publisher's cloth binding 'Ripple in the Storm' rebound in a leatherette binding in the original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally smart. A few light marks to the boards and spines. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Institutional stamps and remnants of labels to the recto to the front endpapers. Dustwrappers with minor edgewear. 'Ripple' dustwrapper with tidemarks to the head and tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Institutional stamp to the reverse of the title pages. Very Good Indeed Hart-Davis, MacGibbon hardcover
1974ref. 107095Alfred A. Knopf 1974. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Great condition. Jacket has Mylar Brodart. Back jacket has previous seller's price sticker. Spine edges are bumped. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1974ref. 91014New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Price stamped to front end page.; 8.30 X 5.90 X 0.90 inches; 171 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
ref. Discovery-9781806011759BRILLIANCE 2027. Hardcover. New. BRILLIANCE hardcover
ref. Discovery-9781806011759BRILLIANCE 2027. Hardcover. New. BRILLIANCE hardcover
1992ref. 014022US: HarperCollins. A fine US first edition first printing hardback light edgewear - in a fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched within 2-3 days - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1992. HarperCollins hardcover
