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1905réf. 43857Berlin: Kommissions-Verlag bei Ernst Wasmuth 1905. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Folio 16 1/2 x 12 1/2". 6 86pp Text liv 54 tissue-guarded leaves Plates as issued. Original gilt-stamped cloth with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Large vignette to title page. Dedication to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Decorative initial. Illustrated with 54 mounted plates in photogravure including one in full color this remarkable work is devoted to the Pomeranian art cabinet a historic piece of furniture that the Augsburg art dealer and diplomat Philipp Hainhofer had built for the Pomeranian Duke Philip II at the beginning of the 17th century. The cabinet was a luxurious artfully crafted desk that looked like a miniaturized Wunderkammer wonder chamber a place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited. The art cabinet itself was destroyed in 1945 during World War II but many of the beautiful objects kept inside its numerous drawers remained intact and are still on display at the Berlin's Kunstgewerbemuseum Museum of Decorative Arts. Some of the objects displayed are: metal playing cards carved ivory chess pieces small paintings apothecary bottles small to large jars that fit into one another like Russian dolls a heart-shaped silver place setting toiletries such as an ivory comb razor shaving brush etc. Head and tail of spine frayed. Some soiling to both covers and spine. A 3" closed tear at lower front joint. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Binding in overall fair to good- interior in very good condition. Kommissions-Verlag bei Ernst Wasmuth hardcover 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
1965réf. 1391287London: MacGibbon & Kee 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 317 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red white and black with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price cut. Spine with light plus age toning; jacket generally with lighter age toning. Rear of jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to rear of jacket. General shelf wear 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 IV of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391287. Special Collections - Downstairs. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
1984réf. 1391290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$13.95". Light plus creasing at head of dust jacket spine. Jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. Top edge of text block foxed. Signed flat by Lessing on title page as both Lessing and Somers. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Doris Lessing published two works this work and THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 1983 under the pseudonym Jane Somers in order to highlight the publishing industry's bias in favor of authors who had already achieved significant financial success. As she expected the works published pseudonymously sold far fewer copies and met with significantly less critical acclaim than the works published under her own name. 1391290. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover 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
1985réf. 1391300New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 375 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine grey with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket edges and corners. Light bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. A few small marks scattered across binding. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391300. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1988réf. 1391302New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light bumping to head and tail of jacket spine. Light bumping and discoloration to tail of book spine. Slight age toning to paste downs. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391302. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1994réf. 1391335New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1997. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jackets. Spine two shades of grey with black lettering. Dust jackets protected with mylar coverings. Prices uncut: "$25.00" and "$27.50". Jackets with very light shelf wear to heads and tails; two instances of very minor marking to jacket of vol. 2. Light bumping to heads and tails of book spines; very slight discoloration to edges of boards. Top edge of vol. 2 text block moderately foxed; minor foxing to fore edge of same text block. Both volumes signed flat by Lessing on title page. CONTENTS: UNDER MY SKIN: VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949 419 pages. -- WALKING IN THE SHADE: 1949-1962 404 pages. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391335. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1961réf. 10218Washington: The Library of Congress 1961. cloth. tall 8vo. cloth. 123 pages. First edition. With 13 plates. Reproduces the earliest known list of recommended reading. The Library of Congress unknown books
1912réf. List38127Chicago Illinois: Will Rossiter 1912. 16 pp songbook measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches in paper wraps. Wraps worn especially at edges with wrinkling and several large folds; very good minus. Contents toned with some wrinkling folds and spots of rubbing with one larger tear; very good minus. Overall very good minus. A novelty songbook for the combined Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East also called the "Two Bills Show." The alternate title on the back cover is Buffalo Bill's and Pawnee Bill's Big Minstrels Song and Joke Book. The inside cover contains "Cracker-Jack Conundrums" a collection of two-line jokes and the back has "A Dictionary of Dreams and Their Meanings." The songbook's cover illustration shows a caricature of a Native American chief on horseback with an inset portrait of "Buffalo Bill" Cody and "Pawnee Bill." Born Gordon Lillie in Bloomington Illinois Pawnee Bill got his start in Wild West shows working as Buffalo Bill's Pawnee interpreter. He launched his own show in 1888 with his wife May Manning which expanded to include the "eastern" element mentioned in this songbook's title with Mexican cowboys such as the popular "Mexican Joe" Jose Barrera and Pawnee performers alongside Japanese and Arab acts. We find no copies of the songbook on OCLC. Will Rossiter unknown books
réf. 34328LESSING Julius. ORIENTALISCHE TEPPICHE. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth 1891. Portfolio 18 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. 11 pages 13 colored plates. First edition. A set of chromolithographs showing major examples of oriental carpets from the collections of the Berlin Museum. Three plates are very large 18 5/8 x 25 inch double-pages. The carpets are mainly Persian and Turkish from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of the double-page plates has been professionally reinforced from the rear else very good. unknown books
1987réf. 17895FRONTIER CROSSINGS The 45th World Science Fiction Convention Book Brighton 1987 first edition a fine copy bound in blue leather and housed in near fine matching slipcase. The deluxe edition being 1/135 copies of which only 100 copies were offered for sale. Contains stories articles & essays by Arthur C. Clarke Doris Lessing Ray Harryhausen Brian Aldiss Harry Harrison William Gibson Fred Pohl Boris & Arkady Strugatsky Jim Burns and 9 others all of which have SIGNED a special tipped in page as issued. Truly the best memory of the convention. A most handsome and desirable item. Brighton hardcover books
1965réf. 08073The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress for July 1965 U.S. Government Printing Office first edition spine a bit tanned else just about fine in wraps. The first 45 pages concern Lessing J. Rosenwald and his fabulous collection much of which was bequeathed to the Library of Congress. Profusely illustrated of course. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback books
1975réf. 05815THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR Knopf 1975 first American edition near fine in like dust-wrapper. Knopf unknown books
1973réf. 05814THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK Knopf 1973 first American edition fine in like dust-wrapper. Knopf unknown books
1971réf. 12379BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL Knopf 1971 first edition fine in just about fine dust-wrapper. Knopf unknown books
1965réf. 17515New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. First American edition. Cloth. Faint bump to lower spine otherwise a near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket with rubbing edgewear and a few small abrasions but still quite intact and presentable. 636 pp. 8vo. "This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection This Was The Old Chief's Country unavailable in America; the four long tales about Africa from Five also unavailable; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories never before collected" from the front panel. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1984réf. 709744NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1978réf. 601765New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Slight foxing on foredge near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of sunning on the spine. All of Lessing's short fiction up through the publication date except for the stories set in Africa. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969réf. 517147New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges faint spotting on topedge near fine in a very good dust jacket with an interior dampstain along the bottom edge that mainly shows through on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1982réf. 504474New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Gray wrappers. Wraps faded with light sunning on the spine small stains on the cover very good. "Canopus in Argos: Archives. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980réf. 517160New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Volume two only. Large octavo. 245pp. Black cloth. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket; jacket has slight dust soiling on front panel else fresh and bright. Second in a series of novels "Canopus in Argos: Archives." Doris Lessing born in 1919 British novelist playwright and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1951réf. 517146London: Michael Joseph 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small soil spot on spine endpapers and edges lightly foxed else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has light toning. Author's first collection of short stories. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1969réf. 517158New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges tiny tear on bottom edge near fine in a very good dust jacket with light soiling and a couple small tears on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1978réf. 48729New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 625pp. Octavo 22 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and the author's initials blind stamped on the front board. Publisher's red top stain. With light dust soiling to the spine and covers a small stain on the rear cover and gentle bumping to the extremities. The dust jacket is subtly toned and slightly scratched. The top edge of the rear panel has a shallow closed tear and a 1/4" open tear. The author has signed the half title page. Lessing writes "Sincerely Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden Lade " Doris Lessing has also signed a laid in postcard. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
