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1985Best.-Nr. 574159New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books 1985. Softcover. Fine. Publisher's catalog. 48pp. Illustrated. Fine in stapled wrappers. Advertises new books by Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Ray Bradbury Death is a Lonely Business Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist John Hersey Hiroshima Bob Dylan Lyrics 1962-1985 Charles Portis the delightful and very funny Masters of Atlantis Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat a biography of and book of photographs by Robert Capa and Julia Child on VHS! Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books unknown books
2007Best.-Nr. 32920London: Fourth Estate 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate 2007. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing’s lifetime the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fourth Estate unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 52476New York: Summit Books 1986. First printing. Hardcover. near fine. Folio. 283 1pp. Indices glossary and bibliography. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color. "Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture from birth to death during the Sabbath and the other holy days at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts Torah binders Esther scrolls Seder plates noise makers mezzuzahs amulets paintings and other objects of wood metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period wherever Jews have lived. Contents: Preface - From the Beginning. Jewish art and the Second Commandment - Marriage. The art of the ketubbah -- The Home. "And upon they gates" -- Birth. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Sabbath. "Desire of all days" -- Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur and Sukkot. "Days of awe days of rejoicing" -- Chanukkah. "The miracle that happened there" -- Purim. "Cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai" -- Passover. "Remember the day you went forth from Egypt" -- The Synagogue. "In the house of assembly" -- Glossary - Bibliography. Previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper otherwise near fine copy. Summit Books hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 39118New York: Summit Books 1986. First printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. 283 1pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color "Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture from birth to death during the Sabbath and the other holy days at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts Torah binders Esther scrolls Seder plates noise makers mezzuzahs amulets paintings and other objects of wood metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period wherever Jews have lived. Minor shelf wear. Slight age-toning along paper margin. DJ binding and interior in overall very good condition. Summit Books hardcover books
1920Best.-Nr. 30889Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/2000. 12mo. 3 189 1pp. Original three-quarter calf with finely gold-tooled spine over marbled boards. Black title-label with gold lettering. Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück is a play by Lessing in five acts. Illustrated with copper-engravings by German graphic artist and engraver Daniel Chodowiecki who was one of the most popular German engravers and illustrators of the 18th century. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781 is considered by many the true founder of modern German literature and was the main representative of the Enlightenment in Germany. His most famous works are Nathan the Wise 1779 Minna von Barnhelm 1755 and Miss Sara Sampson 1755. Text in German gothic script. Some age wear and sunning on binding. Tight copy with binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Insel Verlag hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 23212Paris: Berg international 1990. Reprint. Softcover. vg. Sm. 4to. 172pp. Stiff gray printed wrappers. Text in French. Overall very good condition. Berg international unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 65681New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . SIGNED. 253pp. Octavo 21.5cm. 1/4 black cloth over matching boards boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Spine a touch rolled. Cloth mildly rubbed at spine ends. In a lightly rubbed dust jacket. Signed by the author with both names on the title page. Dated "17th June 1984." Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1983Best.-Nr. 50181New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Good /very good. SIGNED. 178pp. Octavo 24.5 cm Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and an embossed title on the front cover. The extremities are moderately bumped and rubbed and the boards are splayed. In a dust jacket with mild edge wear and a thin 1/2" deep tear in the paper at the head of the jacket's spine. A science fiction novel and the fifth book in Doris Lessing's cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. Signed by Doris Lessing with the date "17th June 1984" on the second half title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 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
1983Best.-Nr. 48592New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 253pp. Octavo 21.5 cm 1/4 black cloth with matching paper over boards and a silver stamped title on the spine. The spine ends are gently bumped and the covers are ever so slightly cocked. In a dust jacket with only marginal rubbing and soiling. Signed by the author with both names on the half title page. Dated "17th June 1984. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 1010172NY: Knopf 1981. First US edition first prnt. Full-cloth with gilt spine lettering. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Spine bottom edge cloth minimally rubbed and pushed; dustjacket with beginning toning on flaps' topedges and minimal wear at spine ends. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Third volume in Lessing's Canapos in Argos: Archives series. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 11710NY: Knopf 1973. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering lavender topstain. Beginning toning on board edge cloth especially at the spine ends minimal rubbing on cloth. Dustjacket with beginning toning on upper sections of white background of both panels shallow edge creases. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's fifth novel. Knopf hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 21411NY: HarperCollins 2008. First US edition first prnt. Originally published in the UK by Fourth Estate in the same year. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Black & white photographs. Spine ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's combination of novella and memoir of her parents' lives affected by WW I. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. 31119London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Just-beginning page toning; dustjacket with very faint beginning toning on the flaps' topedges. Bright copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's fifth novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 30924NY: HarperCollins 2000. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Sequel to Lessing's The Fifth Child. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's thirteenth novel. HarperCollins hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 30925NY: HarperFlamingo 1999. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. 92nd St Y booksigning event flyer laid-in. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's twelfth novel. HarperFlamingo hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 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
2004Best.-Nr. 1090910NY: HarperCollins 2004. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A collection of four novellas one of which is the basis of the 2013 Anne Fontaine directed film with Naomi Watts and Robin Wright. HarperCollins hardcover books
2005Best.-Nr. 60814London: Fourth Estate 2005. First edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sequel to Mara and Dann. Fourth Estate hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 60816NY: Knopf 1985. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Faint beginning board edge toning and spine bottom edge cloth lightly wrinkled; dustjacket with few tiny edge creases and small soil spot on rear panel. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lessing's ninth novel. Knopf hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 596022New York: Harper Collins 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Harper Collins hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 596030New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Volume two only. Page edges with light foxing near fine in a slightly spine-tanned very good dust jacket with light soil on the rear panel and modest edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip and author publicity photograph laid in. 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
1969Best.-Nr. 151151New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good plus dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 150273New York: Harper Collins 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Harper Collins hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 1395524New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2003. First U.S. Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 311 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Pictorial spine with grey lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering price uncut: "23.95". Minor shelf wear. "Autographed Copy" sticker adhered to front of dust jacket. Text block clean. Signed by Lessing on title page. Shelved Hardcover Fiction. 1395524. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
