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1967ref. 104369NY:: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Stated first printing. About fine in like dust jacket. An attractive well preserved copy.; 126 pages . Simon and Schuster, hardcover books
1970ref. 57563North Hills: Birf & Bull Press 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #142 of 250cc. Slim quart bound in publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with facsimile catalog in chemise in rear. Pages slightly tanned esle a very good example. Birf & Bull Press hardcover books
1961ref. 61643Washington:: Library of Congress. Near Fine. 1961. Hardcover. First edition thus. From the personal library of the late Renaissance historian and scholar Vincent Ilardi - bearing his name stamp on the front free endpaper. Near fine in tan cloth. No dust jacket. ; 123 pages . Library of Congress, hardcover books
1996ref. 1425NY: Harpercollins. Fine. 1996. Hardcover. Advance reading copy. Fine cloth in a fine illustrated slipcase. . Harpercollins hardcover books
1994ref. 1329507New York: Harper Collins 1994. First US Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 419 pages; VG/VG; grey and white spine with black lettering; price "$25.00"; volume 1 only; minimal shelfwear pages clean; signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page; shelved Lit Bio. 1329507. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harper Collins hardcover books
1952ref. 100175London:: Hay Wrightson. 1952. Photograph. 4.25" x 6" original photograph SIGNED by Doris Lessing and by Hay Wrightson the photographer. Includes a typed note to the recipient dated 1952 and with her London address also SIGNED by Lessing and the original mailing envelope addressed in Lessing's hand. . Hay Wrightson, books
1957ref. 52298London: Macgibbon & Kee. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. Black boards have gilt stamping to spine a Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. . Macgibbon & Kee hardcover books
1995ref. CS00350New York: Harper Collins Publishers 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. Signed by Authors. Black paper backed in black cloth with gilt titles 8vo 352 pages signed plate adhered to half title page in slipcase; no noted flaws; slipcase shows light wear to corners. Harper Collins Publishers hardcover books
1994ref. 2212223New York: Harper Collins 1994. Signed Limited. hardcover. Fine. A fine signed limited edition one of 150 copies numbered and signed by the author. Still in publisher's slipcase and sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap. Unopened. Limited Issue one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo 24cm; navy blue cloth with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and front cover; publisher's decorative slipcase; xii4191pp; illus. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Memoir of the Zimbabwean Nobel Laureate's early years. Harper Collins unknown books
1909ref. 51121New York: Desmond Fitzgerald 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in pictorial boards with a tanned spine and slight fraying at the edge of the spine. Arthur Brentano's copy with his ownership initials on the front fly. Desmond Fitzgerald hardcover books
1988ref. 6145NY: Knopf 1988. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning foxing on foreedge and topedge; dustjacket with interior edge toning not apparent on the outside and minimal rubbing on rear panel. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's ninth novel; her seventh without a pseudonym. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
1978ref. 80913NY: Knopf 1978. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning board edge toning; dustjacket with minimal edgewear mostly at the spine ends beginning toning at extermities and spine small closed tear on the front panel bottom edge and a small chip at the spine topedge. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Tight clean copy of a major collection of Lessing's early stories. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
ref. B15996-AMinolta . Collectible - Acceptable. ex technical library sticker taped to bottom front no other library marks interior is clean and sound signed and inscribed to all the friends at TLI books Erich Lessing 1994 b/w photos throughout text in German. Soft Cover. No Jacket Minolta paperback books
1995ref. 1001501New York: HarperCollins 1995 First edition. Signed by the author on a bookplate. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in publisher's acetate d.j. and slipcase. Slipcase with light edgewear. HarperCollins, hardcover books
1973ref. 4117NY: Knopf 1973. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Shallow wrinkle on the spine bottom edge cloth; dustjacket with two corner creases and tiny nick on the front flap. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's sixth novel and basis for the David Gladwell directed 1981 film starring Julie Christie and Christopher Guard. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
1992ref. 40857NY: HarperCollins 1992. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on a tipped-in endpage. One of an unspecified number as such issued by the publisher for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. HarperCollins Hardcover books
1965ref. 275634Freiburg Germany: Herder 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. First edition. Illustrated. Lacking the slipcase else fine in a fair dustwrapper with rubbing and owner-repaired tears. Herder hardcover books
1975ref. 65574Don Mills:: General Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0773600388 . A novel. First Canadian edition. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . General Publishing, hardcover books
1957ref. 229452New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1957. 1957. First American edition. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Joel Burton unclipped. Very good. 311 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company [1957]. hardcover books
ref. 6i43443. aufs neue durchgesehene und vermehrte Auflage Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung Stuttgart 1886-1904. Original Halbledereinbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln. etwas berieben und bestoßen/ Name auf Titel/ gering fleckig. unknown
2019ref. x-893646471XChangbi 2019. Paperback. New. Korean language. 8.27x5.51x0.39 inches. Changbi paperback
ref. 3030170675-11-1Springer. Fourth Edition 2019. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Springer unknown
2005ref. 1-1843914115Hesperus Pr 2005. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 104 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.25 inches. Hesperus Pr paperback
ref. 73536CBWien Bauer 1816. Ld. d. Zt. m. Rückentitel u. reicher Rvg. Einband etwas fleckig. Titelblätter fleckig. Teils bläuliches Papier. Aus der Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallersteinschen Bibliothek. Wien, Bauer 1816. unknown
ref. 2126432S.l.: s.n. May 1779. bound with:PFRANGER Johann Georg. Der Monch vom Libanon. Ein Nachtrag zu Nathan der Weise. Dessau: printed at the expense of the publisher Heinrich Heybruch for the Allgemeine Buchhandlung der Gelehrten. 1782. 8vo. Near-contemporary half sheep with pastepaper sides contrasting yellow and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine edges stained red marbled endpapers; Nathan der Weise: pp. 4 276; Der Monch: pp. 296; sporadic light spotting some dampstaining to a few pp. A8 and first few ff. of text subtly reinforced at inner margin; nonetheless very good; early ownership inscription 'Hartwig' to front free endpaper verso near-contemporary German purchase note to title of Nathan der Weise near-contemporary authorial attribution to title of Der Monch manuscript verse to front flyleaf see below nineteenth-century ink stamp 'M. Weller' to title and p. 7 of Nathan der Weise 1950s Slough 'Railways of the World' trading card loosely inserted.The true first edition printed in May 1779 for subscribers in the second state of Lessing's play Nathan der Weise Nathan the Wise promoting religious tolerance and friendship amongst Jews Christians and Muslims set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. This copy is bound with Pfranger's sequel printed in the hometown of Moses Mendelssohn Lessing's friend and the inspiration for the character of Nathan.In 1778 whilst working as head librarian in Wolfenbuttel Lessing was banned from publishing theological prose due to the intensity of his theological dispute with Johann Melchior Goeze chief pastor of Hamburg. He consequently decided to see if he could 'preach undisturbed' from his 'old pulpit the stage' as he wrote to his brother in August 1778 - having published no plays since Emilia Galotti in 1772 - in the hope of playing a 'vexatious prank on the theologians' with his masterful Enlightenment treatment of religious tolerance. The first edition was printed anonymously for some 1200 subscribers followed by a trade edition printed in the same year by Christian Friedrich Voss in Berlin.The present edition features several distinguishing features: the quote from Gellius on the title opens 'Jntroite' rather than 'Introite' there is no full stop after 'wiederkommt' on p. 1 p. 123 is mispaginated 233 and p. 95 bears the line 'reichre Mann' instead of 'reicher Mann' corrected in later editions. 'There are copies of this edition that show various corrections even though they were pulled from the same setting of type' Muncker trans. This is Muncker's variant B in which the line 'Der reicher Jude' appears instead of 'Der reichre Jude'.This copy has been bound with the first edition of Der Monch vom Libanon a sequel conceived by the clergyman and friend of Schiller Johann Georg Pfranger 1745-1790 who felt that Lessing had 'undermined the honour of the Christian religion' Deutsche Biographie trans. Heinrich Heybruch printed this edition at Dessau - hometown of prominent Jewish Haskalah philosopher Moses Mendelssohn close friend of Lessing and the model for the sage Jewish protagonist of Nathan der Weise - on behalf of the Allgemeine Buchhandlung der Gelehrten General Bookshop for Scholars established in Dessau during the Enlightenment to promote self-published works. In 1805 Heybruch published a heavily revised edition of Mendelssohn's Be'ur the first Jewish translation of the Torah into German rendered in Hebrew letters. Provenance: Inscribed to the front flyleaf and signed 'Gleim' is the manuscript poem 'An unsere grossen Kunstler' in praise of Lessing and of Nathan der Weise: Grabt ihn in Kupfer schneidet ihn in SteinGiesst ihn in Erz! Er soll Exempel seynDen Weisesten die seine Werke lesen;Der Nathan den er malt der ist er selbst gewesen. Lessing sent fifteen copies of the subscribers' edition to his friend the poet Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim 1719-1803 as well as a specially bound author's copy. For three weeks Gleim wrote to Lessing in July 1779 'Nathan der Weise was my only companion. I have studied it; I have read it aloud. Oh how I would love to prove that you could not have created anything better in a book of twenty-four sheets. Everything is excellent: plot verse expression' trans.Gleim's poem would seemingly not be published until 1783 where it appeared in Issue 112 of the Berliner Zeitung and was reproduced in Winkopp's Bibliothek fur Denker und Manner von Geschmak in the same year. The Frankfurt antiquarian bookselling firm Joseph Baer & Co. recorded a copy of the second edition featuring the same poem in Gleim's hand to the front flyleaf cat. 517 c. 1905 no. 3338. Could ours be one of the fifteen subscriber's copies sent by Lessing to GleimNathan der Weise: VD18 11831499; Goedeke IV/1 Lessing 171; Muncker 22 pp. 458-459 variant B; Wilpert/Guhring Lessing 72. Der Monch vom Libanon: VD18 11867019; Goedeke IV/1 Lessing 171m. unknown
