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ref. 374338437X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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ref. ING9780758602732Concordia Publishing House. New. Special order direct from the distributor Concordia Publishing House unknown
1988ref. 3605Knopf 1988. First American edition. In Fine condition in like DJ. Mylared. A shorter novel by the 2007 Nobel laureate in Literature The Fifth Child follows the drama of the upright conservative Lovatt family as they begin a domestic life in 1960's London. Faced by the birth of their abnormally large violent son Ben parents David and Harriet must decide not only what to do with him but with themselves. Knopf unknown
1979ref. 260812002New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979-1983. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is all five volumes of Doris Lessing's science fiction cycle The Canopus in Argos: Archives. These are all attractive gift quality volumes and all are first printings of the American hardcover issue. Jackets have some darkening to the reverse along the spine and some have a bit of wear at the flap folds a tiny chip or a short closed tear. Volumes 2 and 3 have owner name on the front free endpaper. Volume 2 has some spine lean and the headband is away from the cover this volume is additionally slightly age toned. The individual volumes are:Volume 1 - Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta 1979 ISBN 0394507320Volume 2 - The Marriages Between Zones Three Four and Five 1980 ISBN 0394509145Volume 3 - The Sirian Experiments 1980 ISBN 0394512316Volume 4 - The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1982 ISBN 039451906XVolume 5 - Documents Relating to The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire 1983 ISBN 0394529685 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
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ref. 3034869215.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1965ref. 1391287London: MacGibbon & Kee 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 317 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red white and black with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price cut. Spine with light plus age toning; jacket generally with lighter age toning. Rear of jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to rear of jacket. General shelf wear to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text block. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Volume IV of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391287. Special Collections - Downstairs. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1984ref. 1391290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$13.95". Light plus creasing at head of dust jacket spine. Jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. Top edge of text block foxed. Signed flat by Lessing on title page as both Lessing and Somers. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Doris Lessing published two works this work and THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 1983 under the pseudonym Jane Somers in order to highlight the publishing industry's bias in favor of authors who had already achieved significant financial success. As she expected the works published pseudonymously sold far fewer copies and met with significantly less critical acclaim than the works published under her own name. 1391290. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969ref. 1391291New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 614 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$7.50". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to front of jacket near spine. Light bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text block. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Volume V of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391291. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1985ref. 1391300New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 375 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine grey with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket edges and corners. Light bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. A few small marks scattered across binding. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391300. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1988ref. 1391302New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light bumping to head and tail of jacket spine. Light bumping and discoloration to tail of book spine. Slight age toning to paste downs. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391302. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1994ref. 1391335New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1997. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jackets. Spine two shades of grey with black lettering. Dust jackets protected with mylar coverings. Prices uncut: "$25.00" and "$27.50". Jackets with very light shelf wear to heads and tails; two instances of very minor marking to jacket of vol. 2. Light bumping to heads and tails of book spines; very slight discoloration to edges of boards. Top edge of vol. 2 text block moderately foxed; minor foxing to fore edge of same text block. Both volumes signed flat by Lessing on title page. CONTENTS: UNDER MY SKIN: VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949 419 pages. -- WALKING IN THE SHADE: 1949-1962 404 pages. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391335. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
2007ref. 11160UK: Hay Festival Press 2007. Cloth. Near Fine binding. 16mo. 52 4 pp. First trade edition. Signed by Lessing on the title page. As issued in publisher's cloth with a printed paper title label on the front cover. A bright clean copy inside and out. A lovely edition of these two short stories by the Nobel Prize Laureate. Hay Festival Press unknown
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1876ref. 3705940Paris.: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1876. Hardcover. Good. 17 cm. VIII 312 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal. Idioma frances. Lessing Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781. Extraits traduits pour la premiére fois par G. Cottler. Literatura. Historia y crítica. S. XVIII. Arte. Filosofía . Estudios literarios 82.09"17"04 Teoría general del arte. Estética. Filosofía del arte 7.01 Librairie Hachette et Cie. hardcover
1983ref. 203396Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 253 pages. A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author published under a pseudonym as a stunt to show the treatment of books by unknown authors. ''I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success' '' she said in a recent telephone conversation from London. ''If the books had come out in my name they would have sold a lot of copies and reviewers would have said 'Oh Doris Lessing how wonderful.' As it is there were almost no reviews and the books sold about 1500 copies here and scarcely 3000 copies each in the United States.''--Lessing in the New York Times September 23 1984. Lessing's long-time British publisher declined to publish either of the two 'Jane Somers' novels before they knew the author was Lessing. First American edition first printing. Near fine in a dust jacket with minor scuffing to covers and light fading to spine thus near fine. Signed by the author as Doris Lessing on the title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1994ref. 190967Harper Collins 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 419 pages. The first of two volumes covering the author's childhood in Africa until her arrival in London with the manuscript of her first novel in her suitcase. First edition first printing. Top corners lightly bumped with light spotting to top of page block thus near fine. In a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page in October 1994. Harper Collins hardcover