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1962réf. 14163North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1962. First Limited Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; viii 62 iii pp. One of 310 copies. Presentation to Ben Shahn from Lessing Rosenwald on front endpaper: "To Ben Shahn / With Kindest Regards / Lessing" dated 1962. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. The third title from Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press. Scarce; this a particularly fresh copy with a compelling association. Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1982réf. 131202New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. Octavo cloth. First edition. Fourth book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 412. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with 12x20 v-chip from bottom edge of front panel and some general light dust soiling. #131202 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1988réf. 42397Athens: Ohio University Press 1988. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-3 4-187 188-192: blank note: last two leaves are blanks cloth. First edition. Eleven essays by Katherine Fisburn Lorna Sage and others with introduction by Kaplan and Rose. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42397 Ohio University Press unknown books
1975réf. 3306New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3306 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1988réf. 3304New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Preceded the British Jonathan Cape edition. Horror. A family's fifth child is a monster. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-166. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3304 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1982réf. 42402Boston London Melbourne and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982. Octavo pp. i-ix x-xi xii 1 2-251 252: blank boards. First edition. Collects eight essays by Jenny Taylor Jean McCrindle Rebecca O'Rourke and others and Taylor's interview with David Gladwell director of Memoirs of a Survivor. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42402 Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown books
1999réf. 93143New York: HarperFlamingo: 1999. 1999. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #93143 HarperFlamingo: [1999]. unknown books
1975réf. 104661New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104661 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980réf. 104660New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Octavo cloth. First edition. Second book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of wear at lower spine end. #104660 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1961réf. 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
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. Octavo 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
1965réf. 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. Herder unknown books
1996réf. 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
1973réf. 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
1981réf. 23431New York: Alfred Knopf 1981. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good . Stated first edition. The third book n the author's cycle of visionary novels Canopus in Argos: Archhives. 288 pp. Review copy with publisher's promotional card and author photograph laid in. A very good clothbound copy in price intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Alfred Knopf unknown books
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
1973réf. 705817NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1973. Later printing. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Dampstaining to lower end of spine. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1973réf. WN3906London and New York: Michael Joseph Ltd 1973. Red paper covered boards gilt with red black and white jacket both very good. Bookseller ticket on front pastedown. Prior owner signature and date on ffep. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Michael Joseph Ltd Hardcover books
1979réf. 9027609London: Jonathan Cape 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st UK edition. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1940réf. 2282990Lane Publishing Co./ Sunset Magazine 1940. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ross Sinclair. Light stain along bottom edge of jacket front a few faint smudges on jacket sticker on front jacket flap. 1940 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Introduction by Bruno Lessing. The contributors are all famous people: John Steinbeck Sinclair Lewis Gertrude Stein Alfred Lunt Christopher Morley Ben Hecht Julian Street. Other contributors include: Walt Disney Lowell Thomas H.L. Mencken J. Edgar Hoover Upton Sinclair The Duke of Kent Louis Untermeyer Thornton Wilder Rube Goldberg etc. Lane Publishing, Co./ Sunset Magazine hardcover books
1982réf. 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
1983réf. 9021710New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 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 three closed tears at top and bottom edges. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1973réf. 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
1967réf. 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
1996réf. 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
