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1951Best.-Nr. LESSINGD003034Michael Joseph London. 1951. First edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Her second book and first collection of stories.Edges slightly spotted. Near fine in very good indeed slightly nicked dustwrapper with a short closed tear in the spine and with the red lettering a bit faded on the spine. Michael Joseph, London. unknown
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1951Best.-Nr. P-10919London: Michael Joseph Ltd. 1951. Hardcover. Fine/First Edition. Octavo. Author/scholar Wayne C. Booth's copy with his signature. Includes the classic "A Sunrise on the Veld." Author's second book. Fine and unmarked in a jacket that has a large spine chip not affecting the title protected by a Brodart cover. Still a presentable copy with the testimony of a noted scholar/critic's including it in his library and quite scarce especially in the jacket. Michael Joseph Ltd. hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. P-24684New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Hardcover. As New/First Edition. Octavo. Stated first edition with $10.00 flap price. A visionary novel narrated by the chroniclers of Zone Three as part of a trilogy. A fine clean unmarked copy. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. P-11705Quantuck Lane Press 2005. Hardcover. As New. A clean unmarked and unclipped copy. Quantuck Lane Press hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 1274794886Vintage 1992. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Wear to covers. Clean pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Vintage paperback
Best.-Nr. GRP74111564Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Penguin Random House unknown
Best.-Nr. 56800793-6Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1766Best.-Nr. 62761Berlin Christian Friedrich Voss 1766. 8vo. An excellent copy in a late 19th century red half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Fore- and lower edge uncut. Upper edge coloured in red. Spine with a few scratches and a bit of wear. End-papers with annotations in pencil and remains of a removed book-plate. Internally in very nice condition with light occassional brownspotting. 8 298 pp. First edition of Lessing’s landmark work in the history of art theory. In Laokoon Lessing argues that each art form operates within its own distinct boundaries that the principles of poetry cannot be applied to sculpture or painting and vice versa. Lessing’s Laokoon was written as a response to Johann Winckelmann's ”Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums” 1764. Lessing challenges Winckelmann’s interpretation of the famous Laocoon statue arguing that Winckelmann portrays the figure’s suffering as too noble and composed - an expression suitable for poetry but not for sculpture whose medium cannot convey inner emotion in the same way. “Laokoon is perhaps Lessing’s best known work outside Germany and it has had a world-wide influence. It takes its name from the famous statue discovered at Rome in the sixteenth century. It analyses the differences between the sculptor’s treatment of Laocoon wrestling with the serpents and Virgil’s treatment of the same theme and from there goes on to discuss the limits and limitations of all the arts. It contains the first clear statement of the truth which is now considered axiomatic that every art is subject to limitations and can achieve greatness only by a clear understanding of and self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages and those which have borne most fruit are those on poetry. Lessing knew more about this than about painting and sculpture for which he was entirely dependent on Winckelmann 210. His exposition of the themes of Homer and Sophocles is especially effective and he opened up a new prospect in the appreciation of Greek literature. Yet perhaps Lessing is best judged by the sum of his achievement. He was one of the principal figures in the Aufklärung the emancipation of German literature from the narrow classicism of the French school. It was he more than any other who laid the foundations of the intellectual primacy of German writers and thinkers in the nineteenth century a debt which they were not slow to acknowledge. Without attaching himself to any special philosophical school he consistently opposed error and dogmatism and in art in poetry in drama and in religion he provided new stimulation. In the words of Macaulay he was ‘beyond all dispute the first critic of Europe’.” PMM 213 PMM 213 hardcover
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1978Best.-Nr. 19926London: Cape 1978. Brown cloth covered hard boards with gilt lettering to spine. In the original dust jacket unclipped £5.50 net. Inscribed "Thank you Doris 5.10.78". From the library of Tom Maschler though without his bookplate who was for many years Lessing's publisher at Jonathan Cape. Book is in just about Fine condition. Dust wrapper is faded to spine as usually found otherwise clean and undamaged. Cape hardcover
Best.-Nr. 116080London Michael Joseph 1956. . First edition; 8vo; original black cloth spine lettered in white dust jacket. A very good copy jacket extremities lightly worn and chipped tape reinforcements to jacket spine. Some offsetting to free endpapers. London, Michael Joseph, 1956. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 116074New York Thomas Y. Crowell 1951. . First US edition signed by the author; 8vo; original red cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. The author's first collection of short stories. A good copy extremities of jacket a worn and chipped light age toning and soiling front flap loose. Worn and creased along the edges of the boards. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, [1951]. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 116077London Michael Joseph 1952. . First edition inscribed by the author; 8vo; original green cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to the title page: 'Doris Lessing 25th December 1983.' The second novel by Lessing and the first in the Children of Violence series. A very good copy some wear and chipping to extremities of jacket some tape reinforcements to spine panel light fading to the boards and offsetting to endpapers. London, Michael Joseph, 1952. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 116078London Michael Joseph 1953. . First edition first impression slip of paper signed & dated by the author loosely inserted; 8vo; original black cloth spine lettered in silver with the unclipped dust-jacket; a very good copy in the slightly worn and chipped dust-jacket. With a slip of paper signed and dated by the author. London, Michael Joseph, 1953. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 116076London Michael Joseph 1951. . First edition; 8vo; original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt dust jacket. The author's first collection of short stories. A very good copy extremities of jacket a little worn and chipped light age toning to spine panel long tear along the front joint. Booksellers ticket to front paste down. London, Michael Joseph, 1951. hardcover
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