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1952réf. 35242New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Very Good/Good. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Small octavo 19cm; publisher's red cloth in beige dust jacket; 256pp. Price-clipped dust jacket is edgeworn and a bit smudged with darkening to spine and a failed tape repair with tear at top of rear flap fold. Boards square with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some dulling to spine lettering. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Lessing's first collection of short stories and second book overall. First published in the UK by Michael Joseph the year prior. Burkom A2. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown
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1964réf. 1391285New York: Simon and Schuster 1964 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo two books containing vols. 1-4 of a five-volume series. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jackets. Spines grey and red with white and black lettering. Dust jackets protected with mylar coverings prices uncut: "$7.50" and "$6.95." Spine of red dust jacket lightly sunned. Rears of both jackets with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jackets spine and to jacket corners; a few instances of minor chipping to jacket edges. Creasing to rear flap of dust jacket on first book. Jackets lightly age toned. General shelf wear to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text blocks. Both volumes signed by Lessing. CONTENTS: I: MARTHA QUEST and A PROPER MARRIAGE 605 pages signed by Lessing on "Publisher's Note" page. II: A RIPPLE FROM THE STORM and LANDLOCKED 544 pages signed by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391285. Special Collections - Downstairs. Simon and Schuster hardcover
1984réf. 19927London: Michael Joseph 1984. First Edition Thus. Octavo pp 510. Blue hard cover boards with original unclipped dust jacket. First printing in her own name of Lessing's two books - 'Diary of a Good Neighbour' and 'If the Old Could' - which were earlier published under the pseudonym of Jane Somers. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Fine condition book in a very good dust wrapper which is a little faded to spine. Michael Joseph hardcover
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réf. 497Light rubbing and wear; minor sunning to jackets. Very good. EGM-497. Doris Lessing. Canopus in Argos: Archives Vols. 1 - 5. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979 - 1983. First editions. Five octavo volumes. 145; 288; 245; 365; 279pp. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt to spines original unclipped dust jackets. . unknown
1954réf. 911T30London: Michael Joseph 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart first edition of this second novel in the Children of Violence series from British novelist Doris Lessing. First edition. The second novel in the Children of Violence series. Continuing the semi-autobiographical story this novel reveals Martha's growing discontent with her marriage to Douglas and the arrival of her baby yet another threat to her freedom. We also see the lead up to and the outbreak of the Second World War and with it Douglas's departure to the army. Written by Doris May Lessing a British novelist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original black cloth binding. Externally very smart with light shelf wear only. Front hinge just starting but firm. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities resulting in light loss to the head and tail of the spine. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd mark to the panels. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Michael Joseph hardcover
2007réf. 914P30London: Fourth Estate 2007. Paperback. Fine/Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A limited edition transcript of Doris Lessing's speech given as she won the Nobel Prize from the library of Brian Aldiss. A limited edition of 1250 copies.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Doris Lessing's speech given upon winning the Nobel Prize delivered on her behalf by Nicholas Pearson at the Swedish Academy Stockholm on the 7th December 2007.Lessing was the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time being 88 years old when she was won.From the library of Brian Aldiss with a note loosely inserted regarding the provenance from his daughter Wendy Aldiss. Aldiss was a popular English science fiction author an influential writer of the twentieth century. One of his short stories 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick - Steven Spielberg 2001 film 'A. I. Artificial Intelligence'. He was part of the British New Wave of sci-fi and was greatly influenced by H. G. Wells. In the original publisher's paper wraps in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally fine. A couple of very light marks to the dust wrapper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Fourth Estate paperback
