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1988Best.-Nr. 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
1961Best.-Nr. 3136Washington DC: Library of Congress 1961. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 123 pp. with 13 plates. Original light-brown cloth front cover a little stained spine somewhat darkened. NOT ex-library! ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED READING LISTS. Rosenwald the great benefactor of the Library of Congress here compares two copies of the "Libro delli Comandamenti di Dio" perhaps the oldest recommended reading list printed in Florence in 1494. Naturally both copies belonged to Rosenwald. ¶ The title of the present work "The 19th Book - Tesoro de Poveri" comes from the fact that the number of "recommended" books varied between the two copies; in the first there were 18 in the second there were 19. The name of the 19th book is the "Elthesauro de poueri in medicicina" or "Tesoro de poveri." Rosenwald gives transcriptions of the original texts translations into English appendices and useful notes. ¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255 and with B.H. Breslauer's circled accession number in pencil inside front cover. Library of Congress unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 86930New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1997. First American Editions. First Printings. Two octavo volumes 24.25cm; grey and dark blue paper-covered boards with burgundy and navy blue cloth backstrips with titles stamped in silver and gilt on spines; dustjackets; xii4191; x2-4042pp; illus. Pictorial bookplates of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 mounted to front pastedowns of each volume. About Fine in Fine unclipped dustjackets. Sharp set of the Nobel Prize-winning author's autobiography. 86930. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 9031605New York: HarperCollins 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Advanced Readers' Copy. Signed by author on label affixed to half-title page. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth with black boards spine and cover stamped in gilt. Comes in illustrated board slipcase. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. 368 pages. HarperCollins hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 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 books
1962Best.-Nr. 9028887New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with spine stamped in black on cover and black and gilt on spine. Unreadable name in ink on front free end paper. A first printing of a Nobel Prize winning author. In 2005 Time magazine included The Golden Notebook in its list of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 170613New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. 308 pages. A collection of stories from the Nobel Prize winning author of such classics as "The Golden Notebook." A tight near fine copy with a few small spots to the top edge in a very near fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 34372London: Boosey & Hawkes 1952. Octavo. 393 pp. Full blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. Binding slightly worn; spine slightly faded; lacking material in rear pocket. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
2004Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 27896North Hills PA: Printed for the Philobiblion Club Bird & Bull Press 1970. First Thus. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Slim quarto 30.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed marbled boards spine lettered in black; 13pp.; 4 mounted facsimile plates; staplebound facsimile catalogue laid into chemise mounted inside rear cover. Fine. Facsimile of the hoax auction catalogue issued in 1840 organized by Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon. Printed for the Philobiblion Club, Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 9021711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt cover stamped in blind. Dust jacket is rubbed at the edges and extremities Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 125255New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early book from this important British writer. A clean near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a tear to the top and bottom of the front panel and some fading to the spine which also has a tiny chip at the base. Still a very nice copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 9013544New York: Knopf 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor wear to the extremities. Knopf hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 9014480New York: Harper Collins 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harper Collins hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 9014478New York: Harper Collins 1996. Advanced Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine slipcase. The slipcase has minor wear to the extremities. Harper Collins hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 9014484New York: Knopf 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The heel of the dust jacket has a minor stain not affecting the exterior appearance. Knopf hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 9014479New York: Knopf 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Knopf hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 9014477New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 9014691New York: Knopf 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The dust jacket has minor wear to the head of the spine. Knopf hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 113846Freidburg: Herder 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Includes commentaries by C. Kerenyi Michel Gall and Hellmut Sichtermann. With selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and Ithaka der Peloponnes und Troja by Heinrich Schliemann and with a pictorial and literary index by Cornielia Kerenyi. Illustrated throughout with numerous color photographs. A tight very near fine copy with an owner signature to the top corner of the title page in a fine dust jacket with a fine belly band in a very good plus slipcase that is lightly soiled and has some minor wear. An attractive production. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Herder unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 112755New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1996. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Another well received novel from this important British writer. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 108376New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel from this Nobel Prize winning author. A fine copy with bright red topstain in a very near fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 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
1962Best.-Nr. 367876New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First American edition stated first printing with $5.59 price on flap and "First Reviews from England" on dust jacket. 568 pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth with some sunning along top edge; dust jacket with two closed tears along top of front and rubbing to head and foot of spine. First American edition stated first printing with $5.59 price on flap and "First Reviews from England" on dust jacket. 568 pp. 8vo. The most famous novel by the Nobel prize winning author a review copy with a TLS to editor James Silberman from the publicity director of Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster unknown books
