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1973ref. 1391301London UK: Jonathan Cape 1973. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo 241 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mlyar covering price is uncut "£1.95 net" has has mild shelving wear and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges denting along the front fore edge and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391301. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1893ref. 133975Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth 1893. Hardcover. Good Plate images in beautiful condition but with ex-lib. stamps on reverse. A few pages have chipping to edges that affect only the margins not images or text. Portfolio boards are detached at the hinge. Other usual ex-lib. marks. Portfolio with thin stiff uncovered boards and blue cloth at corners and over spine. Approximately 4 letterpress pages and 12 color plates loose as issued. In German. Oversize. Beautiful color plates of intricate Italian baroque and rococo ceiling designs. Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth hardcover books
2000ref. 14361London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002261952 . A handsome unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing directly on the title page; The sequel to The Fifth Child. Ben is now eighteen and must become part of the world even though he can never fit it. He is too huge and awkward too strange. Alone and estranged from his family he travels to London France Brazil and the Andes searching for his people and a reason for his being. How will the world receive him and how will he fare ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
2003ref. 29845London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . A most charming first printing of the first edition in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover 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
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
2000ref. 1391293New York NY: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 178 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black and indigo spine with white and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "USA $23.00 - CANADA $34.95" and has mild shelving wear. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391293. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover books
2000ref. 30924NY: HarperCollins 2000. 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. Sequel to Lessing's The Fifth Child. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's thirteenth novel. HarperCollins hardcover books
1983ref. 50181New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good /very good. SIGNED. 178pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed title on the front cover. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed and the boards are splayed. In a dust jacket with mild edge wear and a thin 1/2" deep tear in the paper at the head of the jacket's spine. A science fiction novel and the fifth book in Doris Lessing's cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing with the date "17th June 1984" on the second half title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1950ref. 517155New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Owner's small ink address on front flyleaf boards are lightly soiled else a very good copy in good worn dust jacket with a number of short tears and few nicks creased on spine and rear panel entire length of spine has split at folds and also at the folds of both flaps. Author's first novel. Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover books
1957ref. 508790London: MacGibbon and Kee 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Former owner's ink name on front flyleaf else a near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket is lightly spotted and faintly toned and a thin chip and small tear at the crown. MacGibbon and Kee hardcover books
2005ref. 1396082New York New York: HarperCollins 2005. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Octavo 282 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is white with black lettering. Wraps have mild shelving wear along extremities and moderate foxing. Text block edges mildly scuffed head edge moderately foxed and has a faint gray liquid stain along fore edge pp.197-282. Shelved in Room Z. 1396082. Special Collections - Upstairs. HarperCollins unknown books
2005ref. 60814London: Fourth Estate 2005. First edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sequel to Mara and Dann. Fourth Estate hardcover books
1973ref. 11710NY: Knopf 1973. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering lavender topstain. Beginning toning on board edge cloth especially at the spine ends minimal rubbing on cloth. Dustjacket with beginning toning on upper sections of white background of both panels shallow edge creases. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's fifth novel. Knopf hardcover books
1951ref. 517146London: Michael Joseph 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small soil spot on spine endpapers and edges lightly foxed else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has light toning. Author's first collection of short stories. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1984ref. 1391290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$13.95". Light plus creasing at head of dust jacket spine. Jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. Top edge of text block foxed. Signed flat by Lessing on title page as both Lessing and Somers. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Doris Lessing published two works this work and THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 1983 under the pseudonym Jane Somers in order to highlight the publishing industry's bias in favor of authors who had already achieved significant financial success. As she expected the works published pseudonymously sold far fewer copies and met with significantly less critical acclaim than the works published under her own name. 1391290. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2003ref. 14337London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Page edges beginning to yellow. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
1895ref. 188611Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth 1895. Hardcover. Good heavy shelfwear and soiling to boards pages lightly age toned as expected but otherwise clear. All plates are present. Oversized portfolio tan paper boards with black and red lettering; 4 pp; 20 leaves of color plates. Text is in German. 18th century Berlin porcelain and pottery. At head of title: Koenigliche Museen zu Berlin. Series: Vorbilderhefte aus dem Kgl. Kunstgewerbemuseum hrsg. von Julius Lessing. Ernst Wasmuth hardcover books
1992ref. 14359London: HarperCollinsPublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002239353 . A most handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on front flyleaf; Doris Lessing wrote in 1957 that she had lived in London for a year envisioning the city as a nightmare. Then one evening it all became "familiar and beautiful" to her and she knew herself to be "at home." She has continued to observe London and its inhabitants through the eye of an artist. This collections contains eighteen compassionate portraits of Londoners and their city. Published in The United States as The Real Thing; 8vo ; Signed by Author . HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover books
1969ref. D16691New 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. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1922ref. 428576Berlin: Eigenbrödler-Verlag 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. With 12 engravings. Original full vellum gilt. Boards bowed and the gilt a bit rubbed else very good or better. Eigenbrödler-Verlag hardcover books
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
1971ref. 1394748London UK: Jonathan Cape 1971. First U.K. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Black spine with yellow and orange lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "£1.60" has tears along the head edges and minor rubbing wear and chipping along the spine head. Boards are slightly cocked and have mild shelving wear. Textblock has age toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1394748. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1971ref. 1391299London UK: Jonathan Cape 1971. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo 251 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "£1.60 net" has chipping along the extremities and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391299. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
