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1993réf. ULESAFR00FPHarper Perennial 1993. Very Good. Lessing Doris. African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1993. xii 442pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight rubbing to edges. Harper Perennial paperback books
1960réf. 125255New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early book from this important British writer. A clean near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a tear to the top and bottom of the front panel and some fading to the spine which also has a tiny chip at the base. Still a very nice copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1972réf. 9013544New York: Knopf 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor wear to the extremities. Knopf hardcover books
1994réf. 9014480New York: Harper Collins 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harper Collins hardcover books
1996réf. 9014478New York: Harper Collins 1996. Advanced Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine slipcase. The slipcase has minor wear to the extremities. Harper Collins hardcover books
1973réf. 9014484New York: Knopf 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The heel of the dust jacket has a minor stain not affecting the exterior appearance. Knopf hardcover books
1988réf. 9014479New York: Knopf 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Knopf hardcover books
1967réf. 9014477New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1985réf. 9014691New York: Knopf 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The dust jacket has minor wear to the head of the spine. Knopf hardcover books
1965réf. 113846Freidburg: Herder 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Includes commentaries by C. Kerenyi Michel Gall and Hellmut Sichtermann. With selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and Ithaka der Peloponnes und Troja by Heinrich Schliemann and with a pictorial and literary index by Cornielia Kerenyi. Illustrated throughout with numerous color photographs. A tight very near fine copy with an owner signature to the top corner of the title page in a fine dust jacket with a fine belly band in a very good plus slipcase that is lightly soiled and has some minor wear. An attractive production. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Herder unknown books
1996réf. 112755New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1996. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Another well received novel from this important British writer. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1973réf. 108376New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel from this Nobel Prize winning author. A fine copy with bright red topstain in a very near fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1992réf. 97749New York: HarperCollins 1992. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in fine slipcase in original publisher's shrinkwrap. One of 125 numbered copies Signed by the author. HarperCollins hardcover 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
1950réf. 008590New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1950. First American Edition. hardcover. The bright yellow cloth has a little soiling to the spine and a very slightly bumped corner. The dustwrapper has a small hole on the back edge of the spine a small stain on the somewhat soiled rear cover and a tiny closed tear on the bright front panel. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Review Copy with slip laid in of the first book by this Nobel Prize winner. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1962réf. 367876New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First American edition stated first printing with $5.59 price on flap and "First Reviews from England" on dust jacket. 568 pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth with some sunning along top edge; dust jacket with two closed tears along top of front and rubbing to head and foot of spine. First American edition stated first printing with $5.59 price on flap and "First Reviews from England" on dust jacket. 568 pp. 8vo. The most famous novel by the Nobel prize winning author a review copy with a TLS to editor James Silberman from the publicity director of Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster unknown books
réf. 457790Unbound. Fine. White sheet. Approximately 5¾" x 9". Fine. Signature of Doris Lessing the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on the loose half-title sheet of African Laughter. unknown books
1991réf. 245369Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Green morocco spine and decorated boards. Fine. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. With an original signed frontispiece etching of Rosenwald by Tony Rosati. Illustrated. 427 3 pp. Designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin Texas. 1 vols. 4to. Library of Congress unknown books
2007réf. 91615Hay: Hay Festival Press 2007. First trade edition. 52 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt stamping to spine and inset printed cover label. No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by Lessing on the title page. Two short stories. Hay: Hay Festival Press, hardcover books
1950réf. 85431London: Michael Joseph 1950. First edition. 256 pp. Hard erasure and some light foxing to front free endpaper else very good plus in like dust jacket with tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket along the top and bottom edges and a chip to crown that takes out most of the lettering in “The Grass.” London: Michael Joseph unknown books
1991réf. 66772Washington DC: Library of Congress 1991. First edition. xxxv 427 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth and near fine unprinted white paper dust jacket. Washington DC: Library of Congress, hardcover books
1982réf. 65182NY: Montemora Foundation 1982. First edition. 78 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers with faint foxing along top edge. NY: Montemora Foundation unknown books
1766réf. 42808Berlin: Voss 1766. "Opened up a New Prospect in the Appreciation of Greek Literature" Printing and the Mind of Man Lessing Gotthold Ephraim 1729-81. Laokoon: Oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie. Erster Theil all published. 8vo. 8 298pp. Berlin: Christian Friedrich Voss 1766. 196 x 122 mm. Half sheep gilt spine ca. 1766 light rubbing and edgewear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Former owners' signatures on front endpaper and title. First Edition. The German philosopher and critic Gotthold Lessing was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era; "it was he more than any other who laid the foundations of the intellectual primacy of German writers and thinkers in the nineteenth century" Printing and the Mind of Man 213. His Laokoon probably his best-known work had an enormous influence on the development of art and literary criticism: "Laokoon takes its name from the famous statue discovered at Rome in the sixteenth century. It analyzes the differences between the sculptor's treatment of Laocoon wrestling with the serpents and Virgil's treatment of the same theme and from there does 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 a self-restriction to its proper function. The most telling passages and those which have borne most fruit are those on poetry . . . Lessing's exposition of the themes of Homer and Sophocles is especially effective and he opened up a new prospect in the appreciation of Greek literature" Printing and the Mind of Man. . Voss unknown books
1988réf. 2687NY: Knopf 1988. First edition. . Fine in very near fine dust jacket. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1982réf. 629415Pasadena California: California Institute of Technology 1982. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover by Arthur Secunda. 252pp. Perfectbound wrappers. Topedge foxed rear wrap with a few bumps very good. Prints In Blood's Domain by Robert Duncan Skies by Ron Silliman and Who I Am By Hayden Carruth; additional contributions by Rachel Blau Duplessis Karin Lessing Jose Lezama Lima David Rattray Susan Howe and more. California Institute of Technology unknown books
