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1952réf. 100175London:: Hay Wrightson. 1952. Photograph. 4.25" x 6" original photograph SIGNED by Doris Lessing and by Hay Wrightson the photographer. Includes a typed note to the recipient dated 1952 and with her London address also SIGNED by Lessing and the original mailing envelope addressed in Lessing's hand. . Hay Wrightson, 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
1973réf. 616769Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin 1973. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 413-605 pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Fine. A special number dedicated to the work of Doris Lessing. University of Wisconsin 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
1985réf. 629393Los Angeles: UCLA Extension / The Writers' Program 1985. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover illustrated by Cy Twombly. 173pp. Illustrated. Perfectbound wrappers. Covers slightly worn very good. Prints from The Collection of Poems of Charles Olson 1958-1964 edited by George F. Butterick and Kampuchea by Eliot Weinberger; additional contributions by John Yau Robert Morris Jed Rasula Thom Gunn Hayden Carruth Karin Lessing Sam Messer Ron Padgett Jackson Mac Low Vladimir Holan and more. UCLA Extension / The Writers' Program unknown books
1985réf. 574159New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books 1985. Softcover. Fine. Publisher's catalog. 48pp. Illustrated. Fine in stapled wrappers. Advertises new books by Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist Ray Bradbury Death is a Lonely Business Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist John Hersey Hiroshima Bob Dylan Lyrics 1962-1985 Charles Portis the delightful and very funny Masters of Atlantis Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat a biography of and book of photographs by Robert Capa and Julia Child on VHS! Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books 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
réf. 5131Engraved frontis. port. of Rosenwald. 4to orig. green morocco-backed decorated boards. Washington: Library of Congress 1991. One of 300 deluxe copies specially bound and with the engraved portrait finely printed by W. Thomas Taylor. A really excellent collection of essays. Fine. unknown books
1962réf. 353016New York: Print Council of America 1962. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated exhibition catalog with works by Ben Shahn and other leading printmakers. Foreword by Lessing Rosenwald. Very good. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. (Print Council of America unknown books
1970réf. 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
réf. 53906The late Patrick Eddington was a Utah artist and former high school art teacher who had as a goal the desire to create “The Cat Project” where literary and visual artists from around the world were asked to produce original works about cats which would be included in a traveling exhibition and book unfortunately never realized. Doris Lessing 1919-2013 born in what was then Persia now Iran spent her childhood years in southern Africa. The author of nearly 50 books she received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature becoming only the eleventh woman to receive literature’s most prestigious award in its 106-year history. Her works are often viewed as in-depth studies of twentieth-century living conditions behavioral patterns and historical progressions. Her masterwork is considered to be The Golden Notebook a postmodern feminist work published in 1962. Interestingly Lessing who was a devoted cat lover throughout her life is also the author of a book which conjures up the subtleties of feline existence On Cats. With regards to this small archive it is significant that this rather busy Nobel-Prize winning author would provide Eddington a high school art instructor and small press printer with a piece of original prose regarding cats supplied specifically for him at a relatively low cost. Included in the archive are the following: TLS. Letter 8” x 10” from Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington sent from London and dated 17th January 1986. A letter in which Lessing discusses her feelings with regards to one of her earlier works “A Small Personal Voice.” Eddington had recommended it to a friend and Lessing claims “The trouble is I wrote some of it a long time ago and I no longer agree with a lot of it. I wonder if she would like to read something more recent I wrote and read five lectures for C.B.C. under the title of Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. This represents what I think now not what I used to think in the ‘fifties.’” Signed “Yours Doris L.” at the foot. ALS. Letter on a sheet of paper 7” x 9” written by Doris Lessing to Patrick Eddington. Not dated. In the brief letter Lessing thanks Eddington for the book by Barbara Kingsolver and writes “I am glad u sic like Brian Aldiss. He is one of my favorite people.” She closes the letter assuring Patrick that if she writes something suitable regarding the subject of cats she will remember him. TLS. Brief letter 8 ¼” x 11 ¼” from Doris Lessing sent from London and dated January 6 2000 addressed to Patrick. Lessing opens with “OK I’ve done a short piece. It is not a question of being paid but of time- am as usual in the middle of something. I don’t need a thousand dollars… Perhaps 500 I don’t need a Navajo rug….” Signed by Lessing. Typed letter 8 ¼” by 7 ¾” from Lessing’s literary agent Jonathan Clowes to Patrick Eddington dated 10 January 2000 written in reference to the piece written by Doris Lessing titled “About Cats.” Clowes writes “We are happy for you to use this piece for the sum of $500 and perhaps you could let us have further details of your publication so that we can send you a permission contract for non-exclusive rights in the work. In particular please let us know which territories the book will be published in and how many copies will be printed.” Signed by the literary agent at the foot. Typed manuscript signed 8 ¼” x 11 ½”. “About Cats” by Doris Lessing. The original piece that Lessing sent to Patrick Eddington titled “About Cats” containing periodic manuscript corrections made by the author. Cat lovers will immediately recognize this as a keenly insightful succinct piece regarding the precious feline’s nature. Within the work the author muses “People who do not observe their cats but only rely on ‘received’ wisdom miss out. A cat gives back what you put into it returning affection and attention but withdrawing in dignified silence if ignored. No creature is more sensitive to slights and taunts and even teasing. Too much and they will take themselves off in search of a more sympathetic home. And yet one may not generalize: people who have had more than one child know that every baby is born different and similarly in a litter of kittens each one will be an individual. Like humans they are coarsegrained and sensitive stupid and clever clinging and standoffish. They may be talkative and silent show-offs and modest introverts.”. unknown books
1984réf. 26746Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green printed dust jacket; ix1275pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities spine a shade sunned corners bumped textblock uniformly toned contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper else Very Good and sound. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1984réf. 517145New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover 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
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
1912réf. List38127Chicago Illinois: Will Rossiter 1912. 16 pp songbook measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches in paper wraps. Wraps worn especially at edges with wrinkling and several large folds; very good minus. Contents toned with some wrinkling folds and spots of rubbing with one larger tear; very good minus. Overall very good minus. A novelty songbook for the combined Wild West shows of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East also called the "Two Bills Show." The alternate title on the back cover is Buffalo Bill's and Pawnee Bill's Big Minstrels Song and Joke Book. The inside cover contains "Cracker-Jack Conundrums" a collection of two-line jokes and the back has "A Dictionary of Dreams and Their Meanings." The songbook's cover illustration shows a caricature of a Native American chief on horseback with an inset portrait of "Buffalo Bill" Cody and "Pawnee Bill." Born Gordon Lillie in Bloomington Illinois Pawnee Bill got his start in Wild West shows working as Buffalo Bill's Pawnee interpreter. He launched his own show in 1888 with his wife May Manning which expanded to include the "eastern" element mentioned in this songbook's title with Mexican cowboys such as the popular "Mexican Joe" Jose Barrera and Pawnee performers alongside Japanese and Arab acts. We find no copies of the songbook on OCLC. Will Rossiter unknown books
1991réf. 173640Stanford: Stanford University Press 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG. Olive cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Cream and green illustrated dust jacket with green lettering and burgundy trim. xiv 308 pp. Illustrations. Stanford University Press hardcover books
1975réf. 49197Munich: Studio Bruckmann 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fair. SIGNED. 88pp. Square octavo 24.5 cm in red cloth in red cloth slipcase. Title in silver gilt on spine. Textblock is completely disbound and almost each individual page has separated. Very light wear else. Signed and hand-numbered 25 of 30 by Brauer on original etching. One of 30 "artist copies' numbered in Roman numerals from an edition limited to 270 copies the remainder of which are numbered in Arabic numerals. Text in German English and French. Studio Bruckmann hardcover books
1922réf. 428576Berlin: Eigenbrödler-Verlag 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. With 12 engravings. Original full vellum gilt. Boards bowed and the gilt a bit rubbed else very good or better. Eigenbrödler-Verlag hardcover 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
1961réf. 007442Simon & Schuster 1961. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in like jacket.First Edition.Excellent copy. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
2007réf. 32920London: Fourth Estate 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate 2007. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing’s lifetime the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fourth Estate unknown books
1988réf. 015838Alfred A. Knopf 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket Without Wear .First Edition.$16.95 On Flap. Signed On the Title-Page. Beautiful Copy. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover 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
