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1952réf. 16012London: 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
1974réf. 29159London: Octagon Press 1974. First edition. Small label ghost to front paste down offsetting to free end papers text paper toned tanning along board edges a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to the spine ends. 29159. Octavo boards. Signed by Lessing on the title page. "A housebound woman witnesses the near-future breakdown of society. This is a meditative philosophical novel of considerable merit but only marginally science fictional" - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 232. Filmed in 1981 starring Julie Christie. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. Octagon Press unknown
1980réf. 55469New York: Knopf 1980. First edition. Very good plus. Rare uncorrected long galley proofs for the first US edition of the Nobel winner's sci-fi novel third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. Inspired by Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS was short-listed for the 1981 Booker Prize. A scarce format. 24'' x 8'' unfolded. 121 long unbound sheets printed one side only loosely folded to center. Mild toning edgewear. Touches of soil. Housed in an archival box. Knopf unknown
2004réf. 1001396London and New York: Fourth Estate 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book or by a person unless there is already something present latent or in embryo ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors Richardson Stendhal Austen Tolstoy to contemporaries Anna Kavan Nirad Chaudhuri Christabel Bielenberg Niccolò Tucci. A fine copy signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Single volume measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt pale blue endpapers original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.". Fourth Estate unknown
1980réf. 55469New York: Knopf 1980. First edition. Very good plus. Rare uncorrected long galley proofs for the first US edition of the Nobel winner's sci-fi novel third book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. Inspired by Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition SIRIAN EXPERIMENTS was short-listed for the 1981 Booker Prize. A scarce format. 24'' x 8'' unfolded. 121 long unbound sheets printed one side only loosely folded to center. Mild toning edgewear. Touches of soil. Housed in an archival box. Knopf unknown books
2004réf. 1001396London and New York: Fourth Estate 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book or by a person unless there is already something present latent or in embryo ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors Richardson Stendhal Austen Tolstoy to contemporaries Anna Kavan Nirad Chaudhuri Christabel Bielenberg Niccolò Tucci. A fine copy signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Single volume measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt pale blue endpapers original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.". Fourth Estate unknown books
2007réf. 355490714838London: Fourth Estate 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. A near fine or better copy in like D/W. Inscribed by the Author on the half-title page: For Lucy --/ with good wishes/ Doris Lessing/ Jan 2007. Inexplicably uncommon signed. Fourth Estate hardcover
1999réf. 14339London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002256398 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with minor bumping to corners. SIGNED and dated 6th April 1999 by AUTHOR and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing; A New Ice age thousands of years in the future has buried the northern hemisphere in ice and snow. At the southern end of the continent of Ifrik young siblings Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of climate menacing animals and the hostile Rock People. They head North but what will they find ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
1981réf. 19744London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224018914 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper with publisher's price-sticker of £6.95. Signed and inscribed by Lessing in April 1981 to Ingmar Bjorksten - a Swedish writer who has been connected to the Nobel Prize committee - 26 years before Lessing received the award. An attractive and scarce association copy; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. Volume III returns to the planet Shikasta of Vol. I this time telling the story of human history and evolution from the Sirian perspective a more bureaucratic and less advanced civilization. Booker Prize shortlisted in 1981; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 3; 8vo ; xii 288 4 pages; Note: Last two leaves blank ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
réf. __3112353935De Gruyter Art & Architecture 1886. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 826 pages. German language. 5.00x2.00x8.00 inches. De Gruyter Art & Architecture hardcover
1950réf. 355490714415London: Michael Joseph 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's brown cloth titled in yellow to spine. Lightly sunned to the spine panel foxing to the top edge and front and rear end-papers. Overall a VG copy. The former owner has blind-stamped his address to the front free end-paper. The D/W not clipped - 9s. 6d. has some foxing to the reverse and top and bottom edge of the D/W have been reinforced on the verso with acid-free archival tape Filmoplast not visible from the front. The D/W is now protected by a transparent archival removable sleeve. Scarce Michael Joseph hardcover
réf. 1078-19Wien 1954. Giclée-Druck Iris-Print. 22 x 34 cm. Bildausschn. Eines von 30 eigenh. numerierten und vom Künstler signierten Exemplaren. Die Herstellung von Giclée-Drucken oder Iris Fine Art Prints ist ein in den USA entwickeltes digitales Ausgabeverfahren das auf einer hoch entwickelten Tintenstrahldruckertechnologie beruht. Das Besondere an diesem Druckverfahren ist dass es einen mit freiem Auge nicht erkennbaren Druckpunkteaufbau hat. Diese extrem feine Auflösung ist Voraussetzung für die detailgenaue und brillante Wiedergabe von Bildern. Die Druckqualität der digitalen Technik ist heute so hervorragend dass Giclée-Drucke bereits in Museen und Galerien hängen und renommierte internationale Künstler wie Chuck Close Jim Dine David Hockney oder Robert Rauschenberg diese Technik verwenden. - Erich Lessing 1923-2018 flüchtete 1939 nach Palästina kehrte 1947 nach Österreich zurück und wurde Photoreporter bei der amerikanischen Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press. Später arbeitete er als freier Photograph für Zeitschriften wie die New York Times. Seit 1951war Erich Lessing Mitglied von Magnum Photos der internationalen Photographen-Kooperative. (Wien 1954). unknown
réf. 1879-20Wien ca. 2000. Farb. Photographie. Orig.-Gicléedruck auf Büttenpapier: 32 x 40 cm. Blattgr. Vom Künstler eigenhänd. signiert u. numeriert. - Waisenhauskirche in Wien Rennweg in welcher der 12-jährige Mozart 1768 eine von ihm komponierten Messe dirigierte in der unter anderen Instrumenten "Zwei kriegerische Trompeten" vorgeschriebenen sind. Aus dem Wienerischen Diariu 10. Dezember 1768". "Mittwochs den 7ten gruhten Ihre kaiserlich-königliche Majestät in das Waisenhaus auf dem Rennweg sich zu erheben um allda in dere neuerbauten Kirche der ersten feyerlichen Einsegnung und Gottesdienste beizuwohnen. Die ganze Musik des Waisenchors bey dem Hochamte wurde von dem 12jährigen Söhnlein des in salzburgischen Diensten stehenden Kapellmeisters Leopold Mozart zu dieser Feyerlichkeit ganz neu verfasset mit der grössten Richtigkeit dirigiret und nebst deme auch die Moteten gesungen "Goethe zu Eckermann 1830: "Ich habe Mozart als siebenjährigen Knaben gesehenm wo er auf einer Durchreise ein Konzert gab. Ich selber war etwa vierzehn Jahre alt und ich erinner mich des kleinen Mannes in seiner Frisur und Degen noch ganz deutlich." - Organ loft in the Church of the Orphanage Vienna where Mozart aged 12 conducted a mass he had composed. Lessing bezeichnete seine erzählenden Farbserien Evokationen welche die Lebensstationen bekannter Künstler und Wissenschafter darstellen. Er bringt Orte des Geschehens und echte Dokumente in Verbindung. Es sind "Historienbilder" mit echten Versatzstücken die das Leben von Musikern Dichtern und Wissenschaftern greifbar nahe bringen sollen. Die Herstellung von Giclée-Drucken oder Iris Fine Art Prints ist ein in den USA entwickeltes digitales Ausgabeverfahren das auf einer hoch entwickelten Tintenstrahldruckertechnologie beruht. Das Besondere an diesem Druckverfahren ist dass es einen mit freiem Auge nicht erkennbaren Druckpunkteaufbau hat. Diese extrem feine Auflösung ist Voraussetzung für die detailgenaue und brillante Wiedergabe von Bildern. Die Druckqualität der digitalen Technik ist heute so hervorragend dass Giclée-Drucke bereits in Museen und Galerien hängen und renommierte internationale Künstler wie Chuck Close Jim Dine David Hockney oder Robert Rauschenberg diese Technik verwenden. - Erich Lessing 1923-2018 flüchtete 1939 nach Palästina kehrte 1947 nach Österreich zurück und wurde Photoreporter bei der amerikanischen Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press. Später arbeitete er als freier Photograph für Zeitschriften wie die New York Times. Seit 1951 war Lessing Mitglied von Magnum Photos der internationalen Photographen-Kooperative. [Wien, ca. 2000]. unknown
réf. 5213463Short description: In Russian. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan Mudry. type. M. Stasyulevich. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU5213463
réf. 8974702Short description: In Russian. Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovich. System of Sociology. Petrograd: Kolos, 1920-. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU8974702
réf. albd9f05c8c350dd531Peter Weinberg Moscow I.D Sytina. 1897. 192 pp.Please contact us for details on condition of available copies of the book. SKUalbd9f05c8c350dd531. unknown
réf. albed43f47848b60d50Second Edition. Kyiv-St. Petersburg-Kharkov: Yuzhno-Russian Book Publishing House by F.A.Yuganson 1908. 197 p.Please contact us for details on condition of available copies of the book. SKUalbed43f47848b60d50. unknown
réf. albe5cb94506c2f906cSt. Petersburg M. M. Lederle and Ko 1894 94 94 s. Please contact us for details on condition of available copies of the book.�SKUalbe5cb94506c2f906c. unknown
réf. alb6dfaa6b72ee7e75aFree supplement of the magazine Rodinatsii. St. Petersburg Edition by A.A. Kaspari 1900 108 p.Please contact us for details on condition of available copies of the book. SKUalb6dfaa6b72ee7e75a. unknown
réf. 8974848Short description: In Russian. Lessing Gotthold Ephraim. Minna von Barnhelm. Petrograd: b.i. 1917. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU8974848 unknown
réf. 5213463Short description: In Russian. Lessing Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan Mudry. type. M. Stasyulevich. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU5213463 unknown
1983réf. 79176New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. The complete sequence of science fiction novels which portray a number of societies at different stages of development over a great period of time. The focus is on accelerated evolution guided by advanced species for less advanced species and societies. Lessing 1919-2013 was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo five volumes. Original black cloth bindings with gilt and blind-stamped titling. The dust jackets are lightly toned along the spines with some mild edgewear to the first volume. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1965réf. 1391287London: MacGibbon & Kee 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 317 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red white and black with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price cut. Spine with light plus age toning; jacket generally with lighter age toning. Rear of jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to rear of jacket. General shelf wear to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text block. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Volume IV of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391287. Special Collections - Downstairs. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1979réf. 53268London: Jonathan Cape 1979-1983. First U.K. Editions. First Impressions. Five octavo volumes 22.5cm; blue paper covered boards titled in gilt on spine; pale gray/blue topstain; dustjackets; 365; 245; 288; 145; 179pp. All are Near Fine or better with topstain faded on most volumes. The dustjackets are uniform designed by David Prout; unclipped priced £5.95 - £7.95 net the third volume has a publisher's price sticker over the original price; Near Fine or better. Solid set of the author's only work of science fiction. "Places the crisis of human self-striving into a metaphysically conceived interstellar frame.tinged with Sufi mysticism." CLUTE & NICHOLLS p.714. BARRON 4-333. Jonathan Cape unknown
1962réf. 009456New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing stated. Near Fine original yellow cloth with red topstain tiny bottom corner bump faint small mark fore edge of page block. In a Very Good dust jacket light edge wear at spine ends. A quite handsome copy and Scarce thus. In 2005 TIME magazine called The Golden Notebook one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
