Lessing DorisABAA
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1994réf. 1535New York: Harper Collins 1994. First edition. Octavo original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Harper Collins hardcover books
1952réf. 796London: Michael Joseph 1952-1969. First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Martha Quest the first book in the "Children of Violence" series follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87 she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home as she was returning from the grocery store "I've won all the prizes in Europe every bloody one so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." Michael Joseph hardcover books
1985réf. 53610London: Jonathan Cape / London Limited Editions 1985. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.190. Octavo 20.5cm; marbled paper-covered boards and hunter green cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original glassine overlay; iv45-3702pp. Fine in a Fine glassine. Handsome edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's ninth novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985. Jonathan Cape / London Limited Editions unknown books
1957réf. 51516London: MacGibbon & Kee 1957. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 67-278pp. Hint of a forward lean tiny tear at crown else clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 15s net spine-sunned lightly shelfworn and a bit dusty with a few tiny nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. Lessing's third short story collection. MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
1953réf. 51515London: Michael Joseph 1953. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in silver and green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 89-352pp. Crown a bit pushed lower right corner of front board gently bumped moderate offsetting to endpapers with some scattered foxing to preliminary leaves and text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d net gently spine-sunned modestly shelfworn with several closed tears and attendant creases scattered foxing and a triangular chip to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good. Collection of five short novels set in her native continent: A Home for the Highland Cattle The Other Woman Eldorado The Antheap and Hunger. Michael Joseph unknown books
1954réf. 51513London: Michael Joseph 1954. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 89-4382pp. Spine ends gently nudged with a faint tiny splash mark to upper and lower edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s 6d net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with a few tiny tears and two shallow nicks at crown; Very Good. The second volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author's Children of Violence series written between 1952-1969. Michael Joseph unknown books
1992réf. 51387New York: HarperCollins 1992. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 125 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo 24cm; burgundy cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's decorative slipcase. Fine and unread still sealed in the publisher's original shrinkwrap with the original price stickers on rear cover. Handsome edition of this memoir by the Zimbabwean Nobel Laureate. HarperCollins unknown books
1994réf. 51388New York: HarperCollins 1994. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.58. 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. HarperCollins unknown books
1975réf. 161502New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161502 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1972réf. 161504New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Published the preceding month in Britain as THE STORY OF A NON-MARRYING MAN. Collects thirteen stories. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #161504 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1962réf. 41742New York: McBride Books 1962. First American Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 382pp.; six leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos maps in text. Light dust-soil and shelf wear to jacket else Very Good or better. Though the American edition issued as usual in the British jacket with the Collins imprint at spine foot and original price 30s. Study of the economic and political state of the newly independent countries in postcolonial Africa. McBride Books unknown books
1983réf. 158570London: Jonathan Cape 1983. Octavo boards. First British edition. Fifth book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 418. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A lovely copy printed price of £7.95 net present on front flap. #158570 Jonathan Cape unknown books
1991réf. 34249Stanford: Stanford University Press 1991. First Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiv2308pp.; illus. Two tiny closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel spine a hint sunned else Fine. Stanford University Press unknown books
1970réf. 27896North Hills PA: Printed for the Philobiblion Club Bird & Bull Press 1970. First Thus. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Slim quarto 30.5cm.; original brown cloth-backed marbled boards spine lettered in black; 13pp.; 4 mounted facsimile plates; staplebound facsimile catalogue laid into chemise mounted inside rear cover. Fine. Facsimile of the hoax auction catalogue issued in 1840 organized by Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon. Printed for the Philobiblion Club, Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1962réf. 14163North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1962. First Limited Edition. 12mo. Cloth boards; viii 62 iii pp. One of 310 copies. Presentation to Ben Shahn from Lessing Rosenwald on front endpaper: "To Ben Shahn / With Kindest Regards / Lessing" dated 1962. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. The third title from Henry Morris's Bird & Bull Press. Scarce; this a particularly fresh copy with a compelling association. Bird & Bull Press unknown books
1982réf. 131202New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. Octavo cloth. First edition. Fourth book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 412. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with 12x20 v-chip from bottom edge of front panel and some general light dust soiling. #131202 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1988réf. 42397Athens: Ohio University Press 1988. Octavo pp. 1-6 1-3 4-187 188-192: blank note: last two leaves are blanks cloth. First edition. Eleven essays by Katherine Fisburn Lorna Sage and others with introduction by Kaplan and Rose. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42397 Ohio University Press unknown books
1975réf. 3306New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3306 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1988réf. 3304New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. Preceded the British Jonathan Cape edition. Horror. A family's fifth child is a monster. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-166. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3304 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1982réf. 42402Boston London Melbourne and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982. Octavo pp. i-ix x-xi xii 1 2-251 252: blank boards. First edition. Collects eight essays by Jenny Taylor Jean McCrindle Rebecca O'Rourke and others and Taylor's interview with David Gladwell director of Memoirs of a Survivor. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #42402 Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown books
1999réf. 93143New York: HarperFlamingo: 1999. 1999. Octavo boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #93143 HarperFlamingo: [1999]. unknown books
1975réf. 104661New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Octavo cloth. First U.S. edition. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-663. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104661 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980réf. 104660New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. Octavo cloth. First edition. Second book of the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 4-264. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of wear at lower spine end. #104660 Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1961réf. 3136Washington DC: Library of Congress 1961. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 123 pp. with 13 plates. Original light-brown cloth front cover a little stained spine somewhat darkened. NOT ex-library! ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED READING LISTS. Rosenwald the great benefactor of the Library of Congress here compares two copies of the "Libro delli Comandamenti di Dio" perhaps the oldest recommended reading list printed in Florence in 1494. Naturally both copies belonged to Rosenwald. ¶ The title of the present work "The 19th Book - Tesoro de Poveri" comes from the fact that the number of "recommended" books varied between the two copies; in the first there were 18 in the second there were 19. The name of the 19th book is the "Elthesauro de poueri in medicicina" or "Tesoro de poveri." Rosenwald gives transcriptions of the original texts translations into English appendices and useful notes. ¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255 and with B.H. Breslauer's circled accession number in pencil inside front cover. Library of Congress unknown books
2004réf. 1001396London and New York: Fourth Estate 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book or by a person unless there is already something present latent or in embryo ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors Richardson Stendhal Austen Tolstoy to contemporaries Anna Kavan Nirad Chaudhuri Christabel Bielenberg Niccolò Tucci. A fine copy signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Octavo original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt pale blue endpapers original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04 Fourth Estate unknown books
