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2003réf. ABE-1289925314Flamingo London 2003 SIGNED on the title page. This is a fine book in a price clipped jacket. This is why I have graded the jacket NF. It is otherwise perfect. The Nobel Prizewinner's First Edition/First Printing combines four short novels. The Grandmothers tells of two middle-aged friends who fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys tells the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with heritage. A Reason For It has the leader of a declining culture explaining their loss of glory. A Love Child relates the story of an ex-soldier haunted by a conviction he left a love child behind during the Second World War. A beautiful series of novellas from this great writer. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Flamingo London hardcover
1950réf. LESSINGD009804Michael Joseph London. 1950. First edition. The author's scarce first book a novel. Octavo. 256 pages.Previous ownership inscription on front pastedown scrawled over but largely hidden by the flap of the dustwrapper. Very good in very good dustwrapper slightly chipped at head and tail of spine and with a few small nicks. Michael Joseph, London. unknown
1974réf. C104166London: Octagon Press 1974. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 182 4 pp publishers advertisements . Original publisher's light green cloth lettered gilt at the spine . Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper 'to Tom love as always from Doris January 1975. Provenance Forum Auctions Nov 2025. Tom Maschler - a legendary figure in British publishing Cape responsible for championing some of the most important writing of the twentieth century. Known as a brilliant talent-spotter Tom launched the careers of writers as various as Ian McEwan Edna OÕBrien Clive James and Bruce Chatwin. He famously purchased Joseph HellerÕs Catch-22 for £250 and persuaded Desmond Morris then working at London Zoo to write The Naked Ape. In 1967 Tom conceived the idea of the Booker Prize which launched in 1968. An incredible fifteen of his authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Tom was also known as an exceptional childrenÕs publisher especially of illustrated books: it was he who introduced Roald Dahl to Quentin Blake. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lower spine faintly sunned. No other inscriptions not price-clipped. Octagon Press hardcover
1991réf. 245369Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Green morocco spine and decorated boards. Fine. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Library of Congress unknown
1991réf. 245369Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Green morocco spine and decorated boards. Fine. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Library of Congress unknown books
1975réf. 49197Munich: Studio Bruckmann 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fair. SIGNED. 88pp. Square octavo 24.5 cm in red cloth in red cloth slipcase. Title in silver gilt on spine. Textblock is completely disbound and almost each individual page has separated. Very light wear else. Signed and hand-numbered 25 of 30 by Brauer on original etching. One of 30 "artist copies' numbered in Roman numerals from an edition limited to 270 copies the remainder of which are numbered in Arabic numerals. Text in German English and French. Studio Bruckmann hardcover
1975réf. 49197Munich: Studio Bruckmann 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fair. SIGNED. 88pp. Square octavo 24.5 cm in red cloth in red cloth slipcase. Title in silver gilt on spine. Textblock is completely disbound and almost each individual page has separated. Very light wear else. Signed and hand-numbered 25 of 30 by Brauer on original etching. One of 30 "artist copies' numbered in Roman numerals from an edition limited to 270 copies the remainder of which are numbered in Arabic numerals. Text in German English and French. Studio Bruckmann hardcover books
1965réf. 11946-2New York: Simon & Schuster 1965. Signed by Doris Lessing on a bookplate laid into the book. First U.S. edition / First printing. Tan cloth spine gold paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket with light tanning to the spine. Doris Lessing was the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1979réf. 260812002New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979-1983. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is all five volumes of Doris Lessing's science fiction cycle The Canopus in Argos: Archives. These are all attractive gift quality volumes and all are first printings of the American hardcover issue. Jackets have some darkening to the reverse along the spine and some have a bit of wear at the flap folds a tiny chip or a short closed tear. Volumes 2 and 3 have owner name on the front free endpaper. Volume 2 has some spine lean and the headband is away from the cover this volume is additionally slightly age toned. The individual volumes are:Volume 1 - Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta 1979 ISBN 0394507320Volume 2 - The Marriages Between Zones Three Four and Five 1980 ISBN 0394509145Volume 3 - The Sirian Experiments 1980 ISBN 0394512316Volume 4 - The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1982 ISBN 039451906XVolume 5 - Documents Relating to The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire 1983 ISBN 0394529685 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1989réf. 1391296New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1989. Uncorrected Proof First Printing. Softcover. Octavo xi 633 pages. In Good plus condition. Pink-tan spine with black lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear pen marks on the front cover stains throughout and moderate age-toning along the spine. Textblock has bending wear along the head fore corner of pages 461-474 stains on the rear end-page mild wear along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391296. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1989réf. 28068London: Jonathan Cape 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition Signed by Doris Lessing to the title-page. A fine copy in navy cloth gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Thick 8vo. 515 pp. With a superb selection from Lessing's novels essays short stories occasional pieces particularly My Father excerpted from A Small Personal Voice and foreshadowing her latest book Alfred And Emily and the preface to her feminist classicThe Golden Notebook. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1969réf. 1391291New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 614 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$7.50". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to front of jacket near spine. Light bumping 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 V of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391291. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969réf. 0076656New York: Knopf 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by the author to Canadian literary figure Greg Gatenby on the title page. 1969 First American edition. The final volume of Lessing's Children of Violence series. 613 pp. Hardcover black cloth. Very Good copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to the cloth; shelfwear along bottom edge; faint stain on the fly leaf; Gatenby's signature on the fly leaf; clean text. The DJ shows shallow loss and tearing at the spine ends; light edgewear; creasing to the rear inner flap. The DJ is now housed in a mylar wrap. Inscribed by Lessing. Digital images available upon request. Knopf hardcover
1970réf. 1391284New York NY: Thomas Y. Crowell 1970. Later Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 311 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Blue spine with white and yellow spine. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$6.95" has mild shelving wear stains throughout and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and stains along the spine. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Date is presumed due to presence of ISBN originally published in 1957. 1391284. Special Collections - Downstairs. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover
1981réf. 48849New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed title on the front cover. With moderate bumping and rubbing to the extremities. In a dust jacket with subtle edge wear. A science fiction novel and the third book in Doris Lessing's cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing with the date "17th June 1984" on the half title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1973réf. 19043New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Faint line pencil mark to the painted top edge of the text near the spine. Doris Lessing was the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, hardcover
1988réf. 120829Helsinki: Eurographica 1988. First edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Lessing on the title page. This copy also dated by her "1988" presumambly all copies dated. Copy #196. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. Perfect-bound printed wraps with French-fold flaps. Issued without dustjacket. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper. No. 25 in the publisher's "Contemporary Authors" series. Unread copy in Fine condition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Eurographica paperback
1963réf. 14243Helsinki Finland: Eurographica. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A pristine Limited Numbered first edition/first printing in Very Fine/Very Fine condition. SIGNED and dated 1988 by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. Blue dust-jacket over plain white cover; Three of Doris Lessing's short stories exploring the complexities of love in contemporary life. Included are To Room Nineteen; A Man and Two Women and Between Men; Contemporary Authors in Signed Limited Editions; 8vo; Signed by Author . Eurographica paperback
1994réf. 367351London: HarperCollins 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with edgewear and some rubbing. Signed by the author. HarperCollins hardcover
1989réf. 1391296New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1989. Uncorrected Proof First Printing. Softcover. Octavo xi 633 pages. In Good plus condition. Pink-tan spine with black lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear pen marks on the front cover stains throughout and moderate age-toning along the spine. Textblock has bending wear along the head fore corner of pages 461-474 stains on the rear end-page mild wear along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391296. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1969réf. 1391291New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 614 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$7.50". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to front of jacket near spine. Light bumping 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 V of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391291. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1970réf. 1391284New York NY: Thomas Y. Crowell 1970. Later Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 311 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Blue spine with white and yellow spine. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$6.95" has mild shelving wear stains throughout and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have moderate age-toning along the head and tail edges mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and stains along the spine. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Date is presumed due to presence of ISBN originally published in 1957. 1391284. Special Collections - Downstairs. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1981réf. 48849New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed title on the front cover. With moderate bumping and rubbing to the extremities. In a dust jacket with subtle edge wear. A science fiction novel and the third book in Doris Lessing's cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing with the date "17th June 1984" on the half title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1988réf. 120829Helsinki: Eurographica 1988. First edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Lessing on the title page. This copy also dated by her "1988" presumambly all copies dated. Copy #196. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. Perfect-bound printed wraps with French-fold flaps. Issued without dustjacket. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper. No. 25 in the publisher's "Contemporary Authors" series. Unread copy in Fine condition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Eurographica paperback books
1994réf. 367351London: HarperCollins 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with edgewear and some rubbing. Signed by the author. HarperCollins hardcover books
