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1962réf. 1391298New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 568 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with white red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$9.95". Jacket with light age toning and moderate marking. Moderate shelf wear and creasing to head and tail of jacket spine; moderate shelf wear to jacket edges and corners. Several closed tears to jacket edges including a moderate tear approx. 2 in. to top edge of front of jacket near spine. Light plus bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Cloth of binding with light plus discoloration at edges and corners. Edges of text block with light plus age toning; light smudging through page 10 of text block including title page. Ink ownership inscription of previous owner to front free endpaper. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. 1391298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1962réf. 1391298New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 568 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with white red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$9.95". Jacket with light age toning and moderate marking. Moderate shelf wear and creasing to head and tail of jacket spine; moderate shelf wear to jacket edges and corners. Several closed tears to jacket edges including a moderate tear approx. 2 in. to top edge of front of jacket near spine. Light plus bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Cloth of binding with light plus discoloration at edges and corners. Edges of text block with light plus age toning; light smudging through page 10 of text block including title page. Ink ownership inscription of previous owner to front free endpaper. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. 1391298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1952réf. 100175London:: Hay Wrightson. 1952. Photograph. 4.25" x 6" original photograph SIGNED by Doris Lessing and by Hay Wrightson the photographer. Includes a typed note to the recipient dated 1952 and with her London address also SIGNED by Lessing and the original mailing envelope addressed in Lessing's hand. . Hay Wrightson, books
1766réf. 62761Berlin Christian Friedrich Voss 1766. 8vo. An excellent copy in a late 19th century red half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Fore- and lower edge uncut. Upper edge coloured in red. Spine with a few scratches and a bit of wear. End-papers with annotations in pencil and remains of a removed book-plate. Internally in very nice condition with light occassional brownspotting. 8 298 pp. First edition of Lessing’s landmark work in the history of art theory. In Laokoon Lessing argues that each art form operates within its own distinct boundaries that the principles of poetry cannot be applied to sculpture or painting and vice versa. Lessing’s Laokoon was written as a response to Johann Winckelmann's ”Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums” 1764. Lessing challenges Winckelmann’s interpretation of the famous Laocoon statue arguing that Winckelmann portrays the figure’s suffering as too noble and composed - an expression suitable for poetry but not for sculpture whose medium cannot convey inner emotion in the same way. “Laokoon is perhaps Lessing’s best known work outside Germany and it has had a world-wide influence. It takes its name from the famous statue discovered at Rome in the sixteenth century. It analyses the differences between the sculptor’s treatment of Laocoon wrestling with the serpents and Virgil’s treatment of the same theme and from there goes on to discuss the limits and limitations of all the arts. It contains the first clear statement of the truth which is now considered axiomatic that every art is subject to limitations and can achieve greatness only by a clear understanding of and self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages and those which have borne most fruit are those on poetry. Lessing knew more about this than about painting and sculpture for which he was entirely dependent on Winckelmann 210. His exposition of the themes of Homer and Sophocles is especially effective and he opened up a new prospect in the appreciation of Greek literature. Yet perhaps Lessing is best judged by the sum of his achievement. He was one of the principal figures in the Aufklärung the emancipation of German literature from the narrow classicism of the French school. It was he more than any other who laid the foundations of the intellectual primacy of German writers and thinkers in the nineteenth century a debt which they were not slow to acknowledge. Without attaching himself to any special philosophical school he consistently opposed error and dogmatism and in art in poetry in drama and in religion he provided new stimulation. In the words of Macaulay he was ‘beyond all dispute the first critic of Europe’.” PMM 213 PMM 213 hardcover
1952réf. 100175London:: Hay Wrightson. 1952. Photograph. 4.25" x 6" original photograph SIGNED by Doris Lessing and by Hay Wrightson the photographer. Includes a typed note to the recipient dated 1952 and with her London address also SIGNED by Lessing and the original mailing envelope addressed in Lessing's hand. . Hay Wrightson,
1962réf. 848161962. LESSING Doris. The Golden Notebook. Orig. brown cloth orig. printed dust jacket. London: Michael Joseph 1962. First edition of the author's most famous novel and a catalyst for the feminist movement of the 1960s though Lessing later disputed the feminist readings of her work. Near fine. unknown
1792réf. 1114Pesten Pest: Füskúti Landerer Mihály’ betűire 1792. First Hungarian edition. Woodcut device on title page and tail piece at end. In somewhat later green cloth with red title vignette on spine. Old double ownership stamp on title page and note in ink. Notes in ink on front endpaper. A light water stain to upper corner that effects the rear of the book. Overall in fine condition. First Hungarian edition. Woodcut device on title page and tail piece at end. In somewhat later green cloth with red title vignette on spine. 8 120 p. First Hungarian edition of Lessing’s 1767 comedy “Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück” Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness.It was premiered in the same year in Hungary as the first Lessing play on stage in the country. Füskúti Landerer Mihály’ betűire unknown
1962réf. 114758New 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
1951réf. 164596London: Michael Joseph 1951. Her first short story collection First edition of Lessing's first book of short stories inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Yours very sincerely Doris Lessing 6th March 1966". A collection of stories set in Africa this is Lessing's second book following her debut novel The Grass is Singing 1950. Octavo. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked and faded lightly chipped at head and foot; jacket slightly rubbed spine chipped and toned a few tiny nicks to extremities unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket. hardcover
réf. 2126432S.l.: s.n. May 1779. bound with:PFRANGER Johann Georg. Der Monch vom Libanon. Ein Nachtrag zu Nathan der Weise. Dessau: printed at the expense of the publisher Heinrich Heybruch for the Allgemeine Buchhandlung der Gelehrten. 1782. 8vo. Near-contemporary half sheep with pastepaper sides contrasting yellow and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine edges stained red marbled endpapers; Nathan der Weise: pp. 4 276; Der Monch: pp. 296; sporadic light spotting some dampstaining to a few pp. A8 and first few ff. of text subtly reinforced at inner margin; nonetheless very good; early ownership inscription 'Hartwig' to front free endpaper verso near-contemporary German purchase note to title of Nathan der Weise near-contemporary authorial attribution to title of Der Monch manuscript verse to front flyleaf see below nineteenth-century ink stamp 'M. Weller' to title and p. 7 of Nathan der Weise 1950s Slough 'Railways of the World' trading card loosely inserted.The true first edition printed in May 1779 for subscribers in the second state of Lessing's play Nathan der Weise Nathan the Wise promoting religious tolerance and friendship amongst Jews Christians and Muslims set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. This copy is bound with Pfranger's sequel printed in the hometown of Moses Mendelssohn Lessing's friend and the inspiration for the character of Nathan.In 1778 whilst working as head librarian in Wolfenbuttel Lessing was banned from publishing theological prose due to the intensity of his theological dispute with Johann Melchior Goeze chief pastor of Hamburg. He consequently decided to see if he could 'preach undisturbed' from his 'old pulpit the stage' as he wrote to his brother in August 1778 - having published no plays since Emilia Galotti in 1772 - in the hope of playing a 'vexatious prank on the theologians' with his masterful Enlightenment treatment of religious tolerance. The first edition was printed anonymously for some 1200 subscribers followed by a trade edition printed in the same year by Christian Friedrich Voss in Berlin.The present edition features several distinguishing features: the quote from Gellius on the title opens 'Jntroite' rather than 'Introite' there is no full stop after 'wiederkommt' on p. 1 p. 123 is mispaginated 233 and p. 95 bears the line 'reichre Mann' instead of 'reicher Mann' corrected in later editions. 'There are copies of this edition that show various corrections even though they were pulled from the same setting of type' Muncker trans. This is Muncker's variant B in which the line 'Der reicher Jude' appears instead of 'Der reichre Jude'.This copy has been bound with the first edition of Der Monch vom Libanon a sequel conceived by the clergyman and friend of Schiller Johann Georg Pfranger 1745-1790 who felt that Lessing had 'undermined the honour of the Christian religion' Deutsche Biographie trans. Heinrich Heybruch printed this edition at Dessau - hometown of prominent Jewish Haskalah philosopher Moses Mendelssohn close friend of Lessing and the model for the sage Jewish protagonist of Nathan der Weise - on behalf of the Allgemeine Buchhandlung der Gelehrten General Bookshop for Scholars established in Dessau during the Enlightenment to promote self-published works. In 1805 Heybruch published a heavily revised edition of Mendelssohn's Be'ur the first Jewish translation of the Torah into German rendered in Hebrew letters. Provenance: Inscribed to the front flyleaf and signed 'Gleim' is the manuscript poem 'An unsere grossen Kunstler' in praise of Lessing and of Nathan der Weise: Grabt ihn in Kupfer schneidet ihn in SteinGiesst ihn in Erz! Er soll Exempel seynDen Weisesten die seine Werke lesen;Der Nathan den er malt der ist er selbst gewesen. Lessing sent fifteen copies of the subscribers' edition to his friend the poet Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim 1719-1803 as well as a specially bound author's copy. For three weeks Gleim wrote to Lessing in July 1779 'Nathan der Weise was my only companion. I have studied it; I have read it aloud. Oh how I would love to prove that you could not have created anything better in a book of twenty-four sheets. Everything is excellent: plot verse expression' trans.Gleim's poem would seemingly not be published until 1783 where it appeared in Issue 112 of the Berliner Zeitung and was reproduced in Winkopp's Bibliothek fur Denker und Manner von Geschmak in the same year. The Frankfurt antiquarian bookselling firm Joseph Baer & Co. recorded a copy of the second edition featuring the same poem in Gleim's hand to the front flyleaf cat. 517 c. 1905 no. 3338. Could ours be one of the fifteen subscriber's copies sent by Lessing to GleimNathan der Weise: VD18 11831499; Goedeke IV/1 Lessing 171; Muncker 22 pp. 458-459 variant B; Wilpert/Guhring Lessing 72. Der Monch vom Libanon: VD18 11867019; Goedeke IV/1 Lessing 171m. unknown
1767réf. 28757Bln. Voss 1767. Two nice cont. uniform full calf w. five raised bands on backs coloured title- and tome-labels and richly gilt backs. Traces of use especially to the bands. Some gilding and part of title-label on vol. one worn off. Internally a bit of soiling but a good copy on good paper. Old owner's name on t-p. M. Harboe. Woodcut title-pages and vignettes. First edition of Lessing's first collection of "Lustspiele" containing the first printing of "Minna von Barnhelm".Lessing 1729-1781 is the most important literary writer of the Age of German Enlightenment; with him this period is fulfilled as well as overcome."Minna von Barnhelm" is one of Lessing's most important and successfull works and is considered one of the absolute best of his plays. "Es war die erste deutsche Dramatische Dichtung welche nicht gemacht sondern erlebt war." Hettner Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im 18. Jahrh. II: 310. Lessing himself wrote in a letter that should "Minna of Barnhelm" not turn out to be the very best of his plays he would be very disappointed and never have anything to do with the theatre again. " "Minna von Barnhelm" ist unbedingt die vollendeste dichterische Leistung Lessings." Hettner II: 310. Goethe also considered this work a masterpiece; he found it the most sincere thing to have come out of the Seven Years War and a work of immense importance and impact. With this work we find the genres of drama and comedy fulfilled."Nach ein paar Wanderjahren kehrte er nach Berlin zurück wo 1766 un 1767 zwei seiner Meisterwerke erschienen: der "Laokoon" und das Lustspiel "Minna von Barnhelm". Bücher die die Welt verändern # 213. See PMM 213.Has belonged to Th.E. Petersen and M. Harboe. hardcover
réf. 54777Frankfurt Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 1985 - 2001. Kl.8° 1459 1376 1281 930 1216 1142 1178 1188 1380 1318 1006 1180 u. 703 S. OLdr. m. goldener Rückenprägung u. HLdr.-OU m. goldener Rückenprägung Kopfgoldschnitt 2 Lesebändchen. OUs am Rücken tlw. min. beschienen; die Bücher tadellos und meist ungelesen. Jeweils EA. = Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker Bd. 47 149 148 53 57 6 172 45 94 176 17 36 117. Enth.: Bd. 1: Werke 1743 - 1750 Gedichte Frühe Lustspiele Übersetzungen; Bd. 2: Werke 1751 - 1753 Gedichte Rezensionen Kritische Briefe Übersetzungen; Bd. 4: Werke 1758 - 1759 Philotas Fabeln Fabelabhandlungen Briefe die neueste Litteratur betreffend: Bd. 5/I: Werke 1760 - 1766 Theater Diderots Leben des Sophokles Breslauer Entwürfe; Bd. 5/II: Werke 1766 - 1769 Laokoon Briefe antiquarischen Inhalts; Bd. 6: Werke 1767 - 1769 Minna von Barnhelm Hamburgische Dramaturgie Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet; Bd. 7: Emilia Galotti Werke 1770 - 1773 Emilia Galotti Anmerkungen über das Epigramm Zur Geschichte und Litteratur I/II; Bd. 8: Werke 1774 - 1778 Zur Geschichte und Litteratur III/IV Fragmentenstreit I Notizbuch der italienischen Reise; Bd. 9: Werke 1778 - 1780 Fragmentenstreit II Nathan der Weise; Bd. 10: Werke 1778 - 1781 Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts Ernst und Falk Zur Geschichte und Litteratur V/VI; Bd. 11/I: Briefe von und an Lessing 1743 - 1770; Bd. 11/II: Briefe von und an Lessing 1770 - 1776; Bd. 12: Briefe von und an Lessing 1776 - 1781. 010 Frankfurt, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1985 - 2001 unknown
2004réf. 82482Quantuck Lane. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ISBN: 1593720203. 456 pages 400 photos. -- with a bonus offer--; Erich Lessing is a legend in photography. Born in 1923 in Vienna he became a photo-reporter for Associated Press in 1947 and in 1951 he became one of the earliest members of the legendary Magnum photo cooperative. His remarkable 1950s images documenting post-World War Europe and particularly his pictures of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution garnered worldwide admiration. Lessing's works always revolve around the human condition at the moment when power and powerlessness come face to face when the joy of living is suddnely overclouded with pain. His photographs seize the opportunity to recount an instant of history that will never be repeated. This monumental book is a tribute to Lessing's talent as a photojournalist and a visual record of a time of turmoil and great change. Lessing has received international honors including the American Art Directors' Award the Grand Austrian State Prize for Artistic Photography and many others. 400 duotone photographs. . 2004. 1593720203 . Quantuck Lane hardcover
2014réf. 107276The MIT Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2014. 0262026759 . The MIT Press hardcover
réf. 37137Library of the Liberal Arts / Bobbs Merrill. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - Corresponds to / earlier edition and different translation of ISBN: 2705661468 -- with a bonus offer--; T-Leslao; Lessing Gotthold Ephraim; translated By McCormick Edward Allen Laocoön Laokoön . 1962. 2705661468 . Library of the Liberal Arts / Bobbs Merrill paperback
2016réf. 122010Museum. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened – with a bonus offer-- . 2016. 0972848436 . Museum hardcover
1766réf. 42808Berlin: Voss 1766. "Opened up a New Prospect in the Appreciation of Greek Literature" Printing and the Mind of Man Lessing Gotthold Ephraim 1729-81. Laokoon: Oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie. Erster Theil all published. 8vo. 8 298pp. Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss 1766. 196 x 122 mm. Half sheep gilt spine ca. 1766 light rubbing and edgewear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Former owners' signatures on front endpaper and title. First Edition. The German philosopher and critic Gotthold Lessing was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era; "it was he more than any other who laid the foundations of the intellectual primacy of German writers and thinkers in the nineteenth century" Printing and the Mind of Man 213. His Laokoon probably his best-known work had an enormous influence on the development of art and literary criticism: "Laokoon takes its name from the famous statue discovered at Rome in the sixteenth century. It analyzes the differences between the sculptor's treatment of Laocoon wrestling with the serpents and Virgil's treatment of the same theme and from there does on to discuss the limits and limitations of all the arts. It contains the first clear statement of the truth which is now considered axiomatic that every art is subject to limitations and can achieve greatness only by a clear understanding of a self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages and those which have borne most fruit are those on poetry . . . Lessing's exposition of the themes of Homer and Sophocles is especially effective and he opened up a new prospect in the appreciation of Greek literature" Printing and the Mind of Man. . Voss unknown books
1881réf. 8283Leipzig: W. Druglin 1881. First. Hardcover. vg. Small folio. 354 pp. All edges gilt. Cream colored parchment paper richly decorated in gold on front and rear boards. Bevelled edges. Minor bumping to corners and rubbing to head and tail of spine. Slight foxing to pp. 97 and 97 rest of text clean. Decorative thick marbled enpapers. Text in German Gothic script. Following the third revised and corrected edition this edition was published in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the original printing. Overall very good. W. Druglin hardcover books
réf. L3 box41 v3eThis is Eight Volume Set in German new books red cloth hardcover bound with dust jacket case is not included. The pictures only show 1 volume the other 7 volumes are the same appearance. The details as below: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Werke in 8 Banden. In Zusammenarbeit mit Karl Eibl Helmut Gobel Karl S. Guthke Albert von Schirnding und Jorg Schonert herausgegeben von Herbert G. Gopfert Textredaktion dieses Bandes: Sibylle von Steinsdorff Lizenzausgabe 1996 fur die Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Bestellnummer 13317-X Alle Rechete vorbehalten @ 1970 Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen Gesetzt aus der Sabon-Antiqua Druck und Bindung: Friedrich Pustet Regensburg Printed in Germany Band I: Gedichte . Fabeln . Lustspiele. Band II: Trauerspiele . Nathan der Weise . Dramatische Fragmente. Band III: Rezensionen 1747-1755 . >>Briefe<< . Aus den Beitragen zur Historie und Aufnahme des Theaters Vorrede. Plautus. Werenfels . Vorreden zu Voltaire zu Mylius zu eigenen Schriften . Ein Vade mecum fur den Hrn. Sam. Gotth. Lange . Rettungen des Horaz . Pope ein Metaphysiker! Gluckwunschungsrede 1743 . Gedanken uber die Herrnhuter. Band IV: Aus der Theatralischen Bibliothek . Vorreden zu Thomson und Diderot . Briefwechsel mit Mendelssohn und Nicolai . Sophokles . Aischylos . Euripides . Hamburgische Dramaturgie. Band V: Rezensionen und Anzeigen 1757-1770 . Briefe die neueste Literatur betreffend . Abhandlungen uber die Fabel . Zerstreute Anmerkungen uber das Epigramm . Uber die Fabeln der Minnesinger . Die Nachtigall . Fragmente . Kollektaneen u. a. Band VI: Laokoon samt NachlaB . Briefe antiquarischen Inhalts samt NachlaB . Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet . Ehemalige Fenstergemalde im Kloster Hirschau . Vom Alter der Olmalerei . Uber die Ahnenbilder der alten Romer . Tagebuch der italienischen Reise . Aus den Kollektaneen u. a. Band VII: Theologiekritische Schriften einschlieBlich des Reimarus-Komplexes. Band VIII: Der Goeze-Streit samt den >>Freiwilligen Beitragen<< von Goeze . Philosophische Schriften im Anhang: F.H. Jacobi uber seine Gesprache mit Lessing . Personenregister . Register der Hinweise auf eigene Werke Lessings. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover
1766réf. 42808Berlin: Voss 1766. "Opened up a New Prospect in the Appreciation of Greek Literature" Printing and the Mind of Man Lessing Gotthold Ephraim 1729-81. Laokoon: Oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie. Erster Theil all published. 8vo. 8 298pp. Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss 1766. 196 x 122 mm. Half sheep gilt spine ca. 1766 light rubbing and edgewear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Former owners' signatures on front endpaper and title. First Edition. The German philosopher and critic Gotthold Lessing was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era; "it was he more than any other who laid the foundations of the intellectual primacy of German writers and thinkers in the nineteenth century" Printing and the Mind of Man 213. His Laokoon probably his best-known work had an enormous influence on the development of art and literary criticism: "Laokoon takes its name from the famous statue discovered at Rome in the sixteenth century. It analyzes the differences between the sculptor's treatment of Laocoon wrestling with the serpents and Virgil's treatment of the same theme and from there does on to discuss the limits and limitations of all the arts. It contains the first clear statement of the truth which is now considered axiomatic that every art is subject to limitations and can achieve greatness only by a clear understanding of a self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages and those which have borne most fruit are those on poetry . . . Lessing's exposition of the themes of Homer and Sophocles is especially effective and he opened up a new prospect in the appreciation of Greek literature" Printing and the Mind of Man. . Voss unknown
1881réf. 8283Leipzig: W. Druglin 1881. First. Hardcover. vg. Small folio. 354 pp. All edges gilt. Cream colored parchment paper richly decorated in gold on front and rear boards. Bevelled edges. Minor bumping to corners and rubbing to head and tail of spine. Slight foxing to pp. 97 and 97 rest of text clean. Decorative thick marbled enpapers. Text in German Gothic script. Following the third revised and corrected edition this edition was published in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the original printing. Overall very good. W. Druglin hardcover
réf. Z1-I-017-01435BiblioLife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioLife unknown
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réf. STLN0055Berlin Vossische Buchhdlg. 1771-1825. Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Sämmtliche schriften 8°. Insgesamt etwa 12500 Seiten. Mit 3 Kupferstichen-Tafeln u. 1 gef. Schrifttafel. Braune Pappbände d. Zt. m. goldgepr. Rückentitel auf roten Schildchen. Bibl.-Ex; vord. Spiegel u. Titelbll. gestemp. hs. Bibl.-Etik. auf Vorderdeckel insgesamt guter u. sauberer Erhaltungszustand Einbände teilweise gering berieben Ecken vereinzelt bestoßen Text Tlw. stockfl. oder gebräunt jedoch ohne wesentliche Gebrauchsspuren. Berlin, Vossische Buchhdlg. 1771-1825 unknown
réf. 53906The late Patrick Eddington was a Utah artist and former high school art teacher who had as a goal the desire to create “The Cat Project” where literary and visual artists from around the world were asked to produce original works about cats which would be included in a traveling exhibition and book unfortunately never realized. Doris Lessing 1919-2013 born in what was then Persia now Iran spent her childhood years in southern Africa. The author of nearly 50 books she received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature becoming only the eleventh woman to receive literature’s most prestigious award in its 106-year history. Her works are often viewed as in-depth studies of twentieth-century living conditions behavioral patterns and historical progressions. Her masterwork is considered to be The Golden Notebook a postmodern feminist work published in 1962. Interestingly Lessing who was a devoted cat lover throughout her life is also the author of a book which conjures up the subtleties of feline existence On Cats. With regards to this small archive it is significant that this rather busy Nobel-Prize winning author would provide Eddington a high school art instructor and small press printer with a piece of original prose regarding cats supplied specifically for him at a relatively low cost. Included in the archive are the following: TLS. Letter 8” x 10” from Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington sent from London and dated 17th January 1986. A letter in which Lessing discusses her feelings with regards to one of her earlier works “A Small Personal Voice.” Eddington had recommended it to a friend and Lessing claims “The trouble is I wrote some of it a long time ago and I no longer agree with a lot of it. I wonder if she would like to read something more recent I wrote and read five lectures for C.B.C. under the title of Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. This represents what I think now not what I used to think in the ‘fifties.’” Signed “Yours Doris L.” at the foot. ALS. Letter on a sheet of paper 7” x 9” written by Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington. Not dated. In the brief letter Lessing thanks Eddington for the book by Barbara Kingsolver and writes “I am glad u sic like Brian Aldiss. He is one of my favorite people.” She closes the letter assuring Patrick that if she writes something suitable regarding the subject of cats she will remember him. TLS. Brief letter 8 ¼” x 11 ¼” from Doris Lessing sent from London and dated January 6 2000 addressed to Patrick. Lessing opens with “OK I’ve done a short piece. It is not a question of being paid but of time- am as usual in the middle of something. I don’t need a thousand dollars… Perhaps 500 I don’t need a Navajo rug….” Signed by Lessing. Typed letter 8 ¼” by 7 ¾” from Lessing’s literary agent Jonathan Clowes to Patrick Eddington dated 10 January 2000 written in reference to the piece written by Doris Lessing titled “About Cats.” Clowes writes “We are happy for you to use this piece for the sum of $500 and perhaps you could let us have further details of your publication so that we can send you a permission contract for non-exclusive rights in the work. In particular please let us know which territories the book will be published in and how many copies will be printed.” Signed by the literary agent at the foot. Typed manuscript signed 8 ¼” x 11 ½”. “About Cats” by Doris Lessing. The original piece that Lessing sent to Patrick Eddington titled “About Cats” containing periodic manuscript corrections made by the author. Cat lovers will immediately recognize this as a keenly insightful succinct piece regarding the precious feline’s nature. Within the work the author muses “People who do not observe their cats but only rely on ‘received’ wisdom miss out. A cat gives back what you put into it returning affection and attention but withdrawing in dignified silence if ignored. No creature is more sensitive to slights and taunts and even teasing. Too much and they will take themselves off in search of a more sympathetic home. And yet one may not generalize: people who have had more than one child know that every baby is born different and similarly in a litter of kittens each one will be an individual. Like humans they are coarsegrained and sensitive stupid and clever clinging and standoffish. They may be talkative and silent show-offs and modest introverts.”. unknown books
