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1988rif. 502307New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Pink wrappers. Fading and creasing on the spine and slight edgewear else near fine with publisher's material affixed to the first page. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1969rif. 610629New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a price inked on the upper flap and very light interior foxing. A sharp copy of the fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1969rif. 517147New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges faint spotting on topedge near fine in a very good dust jacket with an interior dampstain along the bottom edge that mainly shows through on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1969rif. 517158New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges tiny tear on bottom edge near fine in a very good dust jacket with light soiling and a couple small tears on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1975rif. 517171New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Light foxing on the endpaper else near fine in a fine dust jacket with slight toning on the spine. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1981rif. 517166New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Volume three only. Large octavo. 291pp. Black cloth. A fine copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has two one-inch tears on front panel with faint sticker mark rear panel has two small tears else crisp and bright. Third in a series of novels "Canopus in Argos: Archives." Doris Lessing born in 1919 British novelist playwright and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1972rif. 517169New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth. Tiny stains on the rear fly and colophon page else about fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple tiny tears on the front flap fold and faint scratch marks. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1994rif. 533011New York: HarperCollins 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. xi 419pp. Wrappers. Slightly sunned spine crease on rear wrap near fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1994rif. 533014New York: HarperCollins 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof with letter from the publisher laid in. xi 419pp. Wrappers. Slightly sunned spine lightly soiled wraps about near fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1994rif. 533013New York: HarperCollins 1994. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. xi 419pp. Wrappers. Slightly sunned spine faint creases on rear wrap near fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1994rif. 468838New York: HarperCollins 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Tall octavo. 419pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of light wear and soil. Review copy with a press release review and gelatin silver portrait of Lessing laid in. HarperCollins hardcover books
1994rif. 468834New York: HarperCollins 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Tall octavo. 419pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of gentle bumping. HarperCollins hardcover books
1994rif. 517148New York: HarperCollins 1994. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof with letter from the publisher laid in. xi 419pp. Wrappers. Slightly sunned spine else fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1997rif. 468758New York: HarperCollins 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 404 1 pp. Printed wrappers. Spine faintly sunned else fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1988rif. 209488Flushing NY: The Paris Review 1988. First edition. Softcover. 306 pages. The highlight of this issue is David Foster Wallace's short story "Little Expressionless Animals." Features interviews of Doris Lessing and Marguerite Yourcenar. Includes Fiction by Thomas Glynn and Charlie Smith contributions by J.P. Donleavy and John Irving William Styron William Carlos Williams poems by Tom Disch Thom Gunn John Updike and numerous others. A near fine copy in wrappers that feature an illustration by Donald Sultan. The Paris Review unknown books
1968rif. 611856New York: Stein and Day 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 196pp. A touch rubbed at the corners and an ink stamp on front flyleaf near fine in very good dust jacket with some creasing light edgewear and ink notations by the printed price. A collection of stories by Doris Lessing Ronald Blythe John Pudney Fred Urquhart and Ronald Duncan among others. Stein and Day hardcover books
1998rif. 132182New York: George Braziller Publisher 1998. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Pascal Vernus translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd. Illustrated throughout with color photographs by Erich Lessing. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. George Braziller Publisher unknown books
2016rif. 181263Waterville Maine: Colby College Museum of Art 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG. dustjacket has creasing & light rubbing to corners; wear to back cover spine edges; back cover scratched. red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book vii 163 w/ color & bw illustrations. illustrated & red dustjacket w/ white & red printing. Produced and circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art folk art appealed to the middle-class Americans who were eager to express their identities interests and social ambitions through these decorative vernacular objects. This catalogue presents new research on the Colby College Museum of Art's important collection of paintings sculptures needleworks and works on paper by self-trained artists working primarily in the eastern part of the United States during the long nineteenth century. Essays by Seth A. Thayer Jr. and Elizabeth Finch investigate the formation evolving interpretation and intended uses of the American Heritage Collection of Edith Kemper Jetté and Ellerton Marcel Jetté - one of the earliest gifts to enter the Colby Museum and the basis of its folk art collection. A third essay by Tanya Sheehan explores the complex relationship between folk art fine art and American visual culture. More than sixty catalogue entries by scholars curators and Colby students identify previously unknown makers and subjects uncover new information about the construction and original contexts of works in the collection and enlarge our understanding of what these artworks meant for the people who made and displayed them.--FirstSearch. Colby College Museum of Art hardcover books
1969rif. 151151New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good plus dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1963rif. 517150New York: Simon and Schuster 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a slightly faded spine tiny tears and a spot on the rear panel. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1971rif. 611194New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Light foxing on top edge of boards near fine in a near fine dust jacket with small inked letters on the front flap and light interior foxing. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1964rif. 596847New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Two volumes bound as one. 605pp. Spine ends lightly age-toned and rubbed near fine in a very good dust jacket with thin tideline on spine tail internally tape-repaired tears on spine head. Two novels in one book. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1961rif. 517167New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Owner name and date on the front free endpaper else fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some toning. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1978rif. 504129New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and faint toning. All of Lessing's short fiction up through the publication date except for the stories set in Africa. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1985rif. 331082New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books