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1986Best.-Nr. 22215London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224024663 . A charming first Impression of the first edition in just about Fine condition with very slightly yellowed pages edges as is common with this title in like lightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Dedicated to fellow author Greg Gatenby and SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. From Gatenby's library with his signature on the fly leaf. An attractive association; Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing's attempt to explain "why human beings continue to make the same mistakes. This original and important work of Lessing underlines the necessity to retain an independent frame of mind to fight received opinion and to resist the general drift into apathy". from the dustjacket ; 8vo; 95 1 pages; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 29845London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . A most charming first printing of the first edition in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 14338London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 000225705X . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition with slightly yellowed page edges in Fine dustjacket this copy is SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; This new collection of fourteen African stories paints a powerful picture of the South Africa Doris Lessing grew up in. In story after story she portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races and also the majestic beauty and timeless landscape of her homeland; Vol. 1; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 22062London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224021303 . First edition/first printing in seemingly unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. With debased language propaganda and political rhetoric as its theme Vol. V uses social satire to document the disintegration of a weaker empire as agents from the more powerful Canopus Sirius and Shammat compete to manipulate Volyen's citizens; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 5; 8vo ; viii 178 6 pages . Jonathan Cape hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 19744London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224018914 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper with publisher's price-sticker of £6.95. Signed and inscribed by Lessing in April 1981 to Ingmar Bjorksten - a Swedish writer who has been connected to the Nobel Prize committee - 26 years before Lessing received the award. An attractive and scarce association copy; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. Volume III returns to the planet Shikasta of Vol. I this time telling the story of human history and evolution from the Sirian perspective a more bureaucratic and less advanced civilization. Booker Prize shortlisted in 1981; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 3; 8vo ; xii 288 4 pages; Note: Last two leaves blank ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 17310London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224021303 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in price-clipped else Fine dust-jacket; In her Canopus in Argos series Nobel laureate Lessing creates a "space" fiction universe to metaphorically explore spiritual cultural and social issues. With debased language propaganda and political rhetoric as its theme Vol. V uses social satire to document the disintegration of a weaker empire as agents from the more powerful Canopus Sirius and Shammat compete to manipulate Volyen's citizens; Canopus in Argos: Archives; Vol. 5; 8vo; viii 178 6 pages . Jonathan Cape hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 17307New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first American edition/first printing in Fine condition with bright yellow top-stain ever so slightly toned in very Nearly Fine slightly rubbed dust-jacket with a 1/4" closed tear in the back; The Four-Gated City was praised as Nobel Prize laureate Lessing's most important work since the Golden Notebook. In the four previous novels set in Africa and looking back to the past Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch here she carries her protagonist Martha Quest to London and the world - into the present and the future ; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 14339London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002256398 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with minor bumping to corners. SIGNED and dated 6th April 1999 by AUTHOR and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing; A New Ice age thousands of years in the future has buried the northern hemisphere in ice and snow. At the southern end of the continent of Ifrik young siblings Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of climate menacing animals and the hostile Rock People. They head North but what will they find ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 14359London: HarperCollinsPublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002239353 . A most handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on front flyleaf; Doris Lessing wrote in 1957 that she had lived in London for a year envisioning the city as a nightmare. Then one evening it all became "familiar and beautiful" to her and she knew herself to be "at home." She has continued to observe London and its inhabitants through the eye of an artist. This collections contains eighteen compassionate portraits of Londoners and their city. Published in The United States as The Real Thing; 8vo ; Signed by Author . HarperCollinsPublishers hardcover
1963Best.-Nr. 14243Helsinki Finland: Eurographica. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A pristine Limited Numbered first edition/first printing in Very Fine/Very Fine condition. SIGNED and dated 1988 by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing directly on the title page. Blue dust-jacket over plain white cover; Three of Doris Lessing's short stories exploring the complexities of love in contemporary life. Included are To Room Nineteen; A Man and Two Women and Between Men; Contemporary Authors in Signed Limited Editions; 8vo; Signed by Author . Eurographica paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 14337London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0007152795 . First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Page edges beginning to yellow. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; Four short novels. In The Grandmothers two middle-aged friends fall in love with each other's sons. Victoria and the Staveneys is the story of a mixed-race child and her struggle with her heritage. In A Reason For It the leader of a declining culture explains their loss of glory. A Love Child is the story of an ex-soldier who is haunted by the thought he left a love child behind during World War II; 8vo ; viii 311 1 pages; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 14249London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0224023233 . A most beautiful Limited Numbered first edition/first printing in Fine condition with very little evidence of wear in original glassine dust-jacket in alike condition; SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Cloth spine is embossed with gold lettering. Boards are covered in handsome decorative paper; The tale of a group of small-time British radicals who get mixed up in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Alice Mellings is the "good'' terrorist a well-intentioned squatter and group caretaker assuming the role of housemaker she abhors in her own mother. A novel about home family and revolt on several levels; 12mo ; Signed by Author . Jonathan Cape hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 14361London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002261952 . A handsome unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing directly on the title page; The sequel to The Fifth Child. Ben is now eighteen and must become part of the world even though he can never fit it. He is too huge and awkward too strange. Alone and estranged from his family he travels to London France Brazil and the Andes searching for his people and a reason for his being. How will the world receive him and how will he fare ; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 016086HarperCollins 1994-1997 1st UK Harper Collins. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Both books are first edition first impression with fill 135798642 number lines. Both books are signed to the title page by Lessing. Book 1 is just a signature and book 2 is signed to 'another'. Under My Skin - Fine unread in Fine clipped d/w. Covers the period of her life from birth in 1919 to leaving Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe in 1949. Walking in the Shade - Fine in a Fine d/w. Begins in 1949 as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel till 1962. HarperCollins 1994-1997 (1st UK) Harper Collins hardcover
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