LESSING, ErichABAA
346 résultats
1965réf. 388940Vienna: Herder Freiburg 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Commentaries by Professor C. Kerenyi Michel Gall and Hallmut Sichtermann. Selections from T.E. Shaw's translation of the Odyssey and Ithaka der Peloponnes und Troja by Heinrich Schliemann. Pictorial and Literary Index by Cornelia Kerenyi. Near fine ex-library edition with usual library markings and some toning in a very good dustwrapper with a tape repair and edgewear. Herder Freiburg hardcover books
1975réf. 336857New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Near fine with a little soiling along the bottom edges of the boards in a near fine slightly soiled dustwrapper. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1976réf. 109870New York: Plume 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good in wrappers with a small stain on back cover and remainder mark on bottom edge. A complete novel from Doris Lessing's masterwork "Children of Violence. Plume unknown books
1959réf. 41224London: Michael Joseph 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First US edition. Near fine in slightly faded wrappers. Michael Joseph unknown books
1994réf. 43641New York: Harper Collins 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Remainder mark top corners bumped else fine in a fine dust jacket. Harper Collins hardcover books
1995réf. 19654New York: HarperCollins 1995. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Advance Review Copy. Fine in die-cut slipcase with a little bumping to the corner without dustwrapper as issued. Unusual format for an ARC. HarperCollins hardcover books
1912réf. 51627Chicago: Harold Rossiter Music Company 1912. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. Quarto. 6pp. Sheet music. Small tears at the extremities a very good copy. The front wrap depicts the sinking of the Titanic. Harold Rossiter Music Company unknown books
1960réf. 629159New York: Partisan Review 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 393-576pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Spine toned near fine. Contributors include Mary McCarthy "The Fact in Fiction" Doris Lessing "Our Friend Judith" Philip Rahv "Dostoevsky in 'Crime and Punishment'" and poetry by Eugenio Montale W.D. Snodgrass I.A. Richards Lenore Marshall Daniel G. Hoffman Sylvia Plath and William Meredith. Partisan Review unknown books
1964réf. 33311New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1964 1966. First Printings stated. Four volumes in two; octavos 22cm.; publisher's boards in unclipped dust jackets; 605 544pp. Light wear to board and jacket margins brief tape repair to verso of spine ends of Vol. 1/2 corners bumped else a Very Good bright and sound set. Bookplate signed by the author laid into the earlier volume. Omnibus editions of the first four Children of Violence novels: Martha Quest 1952 A Proper Marriage 1954 A Ripple from the Storm 1958 and Landlocked 1965. The final entry The Four-Gated City would appear in 1969. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1969réf. 610629New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a price inked on the upper flap and very light interior foxing. A sharp copy of the fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1966réf. 611155New York: Simon and Schuster 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Two novels in one book. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1978réf. 611152New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear and faint crease on the rear panel. All of Lessing's short fiction up through the publication date except for the stories set in Africa. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1952réf. 35242New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Very Good/Good. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1952. First American Edition. Small octavo 19cm; publisher's red cloth in beige dust jacket; 256pp. Price-clipped dust jacket is edgeworn and a bit smudged with darkening to spine and a failed tape repair with tear at top of rear flap fold. Boards square with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some dulling to spine lettering. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Lessing's first collection of short stories and second book overall. First published in the UK by Michael Joseph the year prior. Burkom A2. Thomas Y. Crowell Company unknown books
1991réf. 594311New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Peach wrappers. Fading on the spine else near fine with publisher's material stapled to the verso of the front wrapper. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1997réf. 579974New York: HarperCollins 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Volume two only. Slight edgewear else near fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1962réf. 26761New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. First U.S. Edition stated First Printing. Octavo. 568 pp. Printed dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black. Red topstain and endpapers. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general rubbing and toning. Slight lean to boards shelfwear corners bumped and a few minor patches of white discoloration along bottom edge. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1994réf. 517148New York: HarperCollins 1994. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof with letter from the publisher laid in. xi 419pp. Wrappers. Slightly sunned spine else fine. HarperCollins unknown books
1978réf. 504129New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and faint toning. All of Lessing's short fiction up through the publication date except for the stories set in Africa. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1975réf. 517171New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Light foxing on the endpaper else near fine in a fine dust jacket with slight toning on the spine. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1985réf. 499727London: Jonathan Cape 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Limited edition. Slightly bowed bows else near fine in a fine glassine dust jacket. Copy 195 of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. Jonathan Cape hardcover 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
1976réf. 73302Taipei: The Chinese Association for Folklore 1976. 8vo pp. 5 1 8 2 184 3; original full red cloth; articles in English and German; full red cloth; fine. Asia Folklore and Social Life Monographs volume 91. The Chinese Association for Folklore unknown books
1954réf. 36660Washington: Library of Congress 1954. First edition sm 4to pp. vi 292; a fine copy in original beige cloth with gilt-lettered spine. [Library of Congress] unknown books
1977réf. 23128Washington DC: Library of Congress 1977. First edition 4to pp. xxi-xii 517; endpaper maps in color mounted color frontis 11 mounted plates 8 in color; near fine in original natural cloth stamped in purple and gilt. Library of Congress unknown books
1926réf. 191211The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1926. Hardcover. Good shelfwear overall to portfolios pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear missing plates 49-66. Oversized portfolio 3/4 yellow cloth and black paper boards with yellow lettering; VII 39 pp plates I-XLVIII with number 38 unnumbered color and mounted. The Appendix by F. Lessing p. 35-39 includes the translation of the two songs reproduced on plates LXV and LXVI with extracts from the various commentaries. Those plates are missing as are all plates from 49-66. 17x13x1.5" Martinus Nijhoff hardcover books
