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2000ref. ULESBEN00MWHarperCollins 2000. Fine. Lessing Doris. Ben in the World. NY: HarperCollins 2000. 178pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with light bumping to spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing to extremities and bumping to edges. HarperCollins hardcover books
1992ref. ULESREA00LRHarperCollins 1992. Fine. Lessing Doris. The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches. New York City: HarperCollins 1992. 1st edition. 214pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine with light bumping to corners. HarperCollins hardcover books
1985ref. ULESGOO01CCWDistributed by Random House 1985. Very Good. Lessing Doris May. Good Terrorist. New York: Distributed by Random House 1985. 375pp. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good with sunning to top edge of boards. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped corners. Distributed by Random House hardcover books
1992ref. ULESREA01FPHarper Perennial 1992. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Real Thing: Stories and Sketches. New York NY: Harper Perennial 1992. 214pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges and yellowing of pages. Harper Perennial paperback books
1995ref. ULESMAR01FPHarperPerennial 1995. Very Good. Lessing Doris. Martha Quest. New York NY: HarperPerennial 1995. 333pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Slight moisture damage to top of last several pages. HarperPerennial paperback books
1998ref. 132182New York: George Braziller Publisher 1998. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Pascal Vernus translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd. Illustrated throughout with color photographs by Erich Lessing. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. George Braziller Publisher unknown books
1993ref. 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
2002ref. RLESPOM00RJBThe Easton Press 2002. Fine. Lessing Erich . Pompeii. Varone Antonio. Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2002. 205pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Glossary. 4to. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed corners and subtle scratch on front cover near upper fore edge corner. Moire satin endsheets and all edges gilt. The Easton Press unknown books
1989ref. ULESFIF01LRVintage Books 1989. Very Good. Lessing Doris May. The Fifth Child. New York City: Vintage Books 1989. 133pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with sporadic highlighting and marginalia in pen. Vintage Books paperback books
1960ref. 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
1960ref. 2696London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" San Francisco Chronicle. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. In swift barbed style in high hard farcical writing that is eruptively funny Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliantpiece of cultural interpretation an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read. "Eloquent.Wry and ribald.Lessing's impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make In Pursuit of the English readable and amusing" New York Times MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
1994ref. 1535New York: Harper Collins 1994. First edition. Octavo original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Harper Collins hardcover books
1952ref. 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
1985ref. 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
1957ref. 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
1953ref. 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
1954ref. 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
1992ref. 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
1994ref. 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
1975ref. 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
1972ref. 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
1962ref. 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
1983ref. 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
1991ref. 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
1970ref. 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
