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1969rif. 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
1999rif. 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
1992rif. 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
1963rif. 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
2003rif. 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
1985rif. 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
2000rif. 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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rif. 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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1787rif. H244Berlin: Arnold Wever 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. In English: On the Purpose of Jesus and His Disciples Another Fragment of the anonymous Wolfenbüttel author 1784; Fragments of the anonymous Wolfenbüttel author an Appendix to the Fragment On the Purpose of Jesus and His Disciples 1784; Remaining Still Unpublished Works of the Wolfenbüttel Fragmentist. A Posthumous Paper by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Edited by C. A. E. Schmidt pseudonym for Johann Andreas Riem 1787. First volume is a “neue Auflage” second volume is a first printing third volume probably also a first printing; it does not list a publisher but most scholars think it was Wever who published this volume as well. 8vo old half vellum and patterned paper-covered boards 276 298 410 pp. Very good light soil and rubbing to binding minor ex-library marks with bookplates to pastedown blindstamp to title pages. Lessing died in 1781; these posthumously published 'fragments' are an outgrowth of the Wolfenbüttel controversy 1774–1778 which arose when Lessing serving as librarian at the ducal library in Wolfenbüttel published fragments from the late Hermann Samuel Reimarus’s unpublished manuscripts criticizing revealed religion and biblical miracles. Lessing issued these as the Wolfenbüttel Fragments arguing that open theological debate was vital for truth. The fragments’ rationalist deistic arguments—denying revelation and the divinity of Christ—provoked fierce opposition from Lutheran authorities particularly Pastor Johann Melchior Goeze of Hamburg. The dispute escalated into public pamphlet battles over faith reason and the limits of theological inquiry ending when the Duke forbade Lessing to write on religion. The controversy became a key moment in the German Enlightenment’s challenge to orthodox theology. These appear to be Lessing’s last word on the subject with an essay and notes by him plus further material from Reimarus’s manuscripts issued from beyond the grave. Arnold Wever hardcover
1770rif. H443Braunschweig / Berlin: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses / Christian Friedrich Voss 1770. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. First printings of two books bound together. 8vo 8 x 6.25 inches early or original half leather and patterned boards. Fair copy with ex-library marks wear and rubbing to binding rear board just about detached inch loss of leather to head of spine. Text of first volume tanned but free of marks but for embossed library stamp on title page of first volume second volume somewhat brighter. 8 189 1 pp; 8 87 1 pp 5 engraved plates plus elaborate engraved vignette on title page and engraved pictorial vignette as headpiece to p. 1 of text of second volume. Berengarius Turonensis is mainly in German with portions in German: Lessing examines the 11th-century theologian Berengar of Tours who challenged the orthodox doctrine of the real presence in the Eucharist. Lessing uses Berengar’s case to explore the limits of church authority and the tension between faith and reason essentially presenting Berengar as an early rational critic of dogma and a symbol of intellectual freedom within theology. “Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet” “How the Ancients Represented Death” 1769 is an essay on classical art and symbolism. Lessing argues that the Greeks did not depict Death as a terrifying skeleton or monster but rather as a gentle sleeping youth—sometimes holding a torch turned downward—reflecting their view of death as peaceful rest rather than horror. The essay contrasts ancient serenity with modern fear and serves as a key example of Lessing’s aesthetic humanism. Both are rare in the trade and seldom come up for auction. Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses / Christian Friedrich Voss hardcover
1778rif. H645Wolfenbüttel i.e. Hamburg Braunschweig: Buchhandlung des Fürstl. Waisenhauses various - many without publisher information 1778. Hardcover. Good. Published 1777-1778. Octavo brown library cloth gilt stamped on spine various publications each with its own title page various paginations totalling about 500 pp. Good copy institutional marks including bookplate and due slip on endpapers small embossed blindstamp on first title page once or twice to text otherwise good clean copy. The central publications of the controversy that erupted when Lessing published 'fragments' of the work of Hermann Samuel Reimarus that attacked Lutheran orthodoxy and argued for a rational deism rejecting the theology of revelation. This led to an exchange of polemical pamphlets between Lessing and the principle defender of Lutheranism Johann Melchior Goeze a pastor from Hamburg. These culminated in Lessing's 11 'Anti-Goeze' tracts that contain the seeds of his thoughts regarding religion that became the foundation of 'Nathan the Wise.' The so-called Fragmentes Dispute is considered the most important theological controversy of the 18th century pitting Lessing's Enlightenment philosophy against Lutheran orthodoxy. Buchhandlung des Fürstl. Waisenhauses, various - many without publisher information hardcover
