Lessing, DorisABAA
5 759 résultats
1985réf. 111097New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394543394 . A first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; The tale of a group of small-time British radicals who get mixed up in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Alice Mellings is the "good'' terrorist a well-intentioned squatter and group caretaker assuming the role of housemaker she abhors in her own mother. A novel about home family and revolt on several levels; 8vo; 378 pages; $5.00 . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1986réf. 22215London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224024663 . A charming first Impression of the first edition in just about Fine condition with very slightly yellowed pages edges as is common with this title in like lightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Dedicated to fellow author Greg Gatenby and SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. From Gatenby's library with his signature on the fly leaf. An attractive association; Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing's attempt to explain "why human beings continue to make the same mistakes. This original and important work of Lessing underlines the necessity to retain an independent frame of mind to fight received opinion and to resist the general drift into apathy". from the dustjacket ; 8vo; 95 1 pages; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover books
2003réf. 29845London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . A most charming first printing of the first edition in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
2000réf. 14338London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 000225705X . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition with slightly yellowed page edges in Fine dustjacket this copy is SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; This new collection of fourteen African stories paints a powerful picture of the South Africa Doris Lessing grew up in. In story after story she portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races and also the majestic beauty and timeless landscape of her homeland; Vol. 1; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
1983réf. 22062London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224021303 . First edition/first printing in seemingly unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. With debased language propaganda and political rhetoric as its theme Vol. V uses social satire to document the disintegration of a weaker empire as agents from the more powerful Canopus Sirius and Shammat compete to manipulate Volyen's citizens; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 5; 8vo ; viii 178 6 pages . Jonathan Cape hardcover books
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 books
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 books
1992réf. 14359London: HarperCollinsPublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002239353 . A most handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on front flyleaf; Doris Lessing wrote in 1957 that she had lived in London for a year envisioning the city as a nightmare. Then one evening it all became "familiar and beautiful" to her and she knew herself to be "at home." She has continued to observe London and its inhabitants through the eye of an artist. This collections contains eighteen compassionate portraits of Londoners and their city. Published in The United States as The Real Thing; 8vo ; Signed by Author . HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover books
2000réf. 14361London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002261952 . A handsome unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing directly on the title page; The sequel to The Fifth Child. Ben is now eighteen and must become part of the world even though he can never fit it. He is too huge and awkward too strange. Alone and estranged from his family he travels to London France Brazil and the Andes searching for his people and a reason for his being. How will the world receive him and how will he fare ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
1969réf. 17307New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first American edition/first printing in Fine condition with bright yellow top-stain ever so slightly toned in very Nearly Fine slightly rubbed dust-jacket with a 1/4" closed tear in the back; The Four-Gated City was praised as Nobel Prize laureate Lessing's most important work since the Golden Notebook. In the four previous novels set in Africa and looking back to the past Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch here she carries her protagonist Martha Quest to London and the world - into the present and the future ; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2003réf. 14337London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Page edges beginning to yellow. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
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 books
1985réf. 14249London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224023233 . A most beautiful Limited Numbered first edition/first printing in Fine condition with very little evidence of wear in original glassine dust-jacket in alike condition; SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Cloth spine is embossed with gold lettering. Boards are covered in handsome decorative paper; The tale of a group of small-time British radicals who get mixed up in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Alice Mellings is the "good'' terrorist a well-intentioned squatter and group caretaker assuming the role of housemaker she abhors in her own mother. A novel about home family and revolt on several levels; 12mo ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1983réf. 17310London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224021303 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in price-clipped else Fine dust-jacket; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. With debased language propaganda and political rhetoric as its theme Vol. V uses social satire to document the disintegration of a weaker empire as agents from the more powerful Canopus Sirius and Shammat compete to manipulate Volyen's citizens; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 5; 8vo; viii 178 6 pages . Jonathan Cape 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
1978réf. 1391286New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 626 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red-orange spine with black and burgundy rectangles containing white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$15.00" has mild shelving wear and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and stains on the front board. Textblock has stains on the front end-page mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Contains a "Review Copy" ticket between the rear cover and mylar and a loose printed description of the anthology and Doris Lessing. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391286. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1971réf. 1391288New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1971. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 308 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$6.95" has mild shelving wear chipping along the head fore corners and a small open tear along the spine head edge. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges stains along the edges and joints and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391288. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1963réf. 1391292New York NY: Simon and Schuster 1963. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 316 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Gold and green spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$5.00" has mild shelving wear chipping along the extremities stains on the rear cover open tears along the rear tail edge and extremities a closed tear along the rear head edge and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have stains throughout light bumping along the fore corners and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains on the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391292. Special Collections - Downstairs. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
2000réf. 1391293New York NY: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 178 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black and indigo spine with white and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "USA $23.00 - CANADA $34.95" and has mild shelving wear. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391293. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover books
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
1971réf. 1391299London UK: Jonathan Cape 1971. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo 251 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "£1.60 net" has chipping along the extremities and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391299. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1973réf. 1391301London UK: Jonathan Cape 1973. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo 241 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mlyar covering price is uncut "£1.95 net" has has mild shelving wear and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges denting along the front fore edge and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391301. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1979réf. 1391304New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1979. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Octavo 319 pages. In Good condition. Yellow spine with black lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear bending wear along the rear fore head corner stains throughout and small tears along the spine corners. Textblock is lightly cocked has bending wear from pages 191-197 moderate wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. DL consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391304. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980réf. 1391306New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Octavo 189 pages. In Good condition. Yellow spine with black lettering. Covers have mild shelving wear a small closed tear on the front head edge stains throughout a printed name pasted down by tape on the front cover and a staple through the front cover. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and stains along the edges. Contains a typed letter about the novel stapled to the interior of the front cover. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. DL consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391306. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1971réf. 1394748London UK: Jonathan Cape 1971. First U.K. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Black spine with yellow and orange lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "£1.60" has tears along the head edges and minor rubbing wear and chipping along the spine head. Boards are slightly cocked and have mild shelving wear. Textblock has age toning along the edges. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1394748. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
