LESSING, DorisABAA
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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
1973réf. 705817NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1973. Later printing. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Dampstaining to lower end of spine. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1973réf. 1391301London UK: Jonathan Cape 1973. First UK Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo 241 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mlyar covering price is uncut "£1.95 net" has has mild shelving wear and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges denting along the front fore edge and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages mild wear along the edges mild age-toning along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391301. Special Collections - Downstairs. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1973réf. 1400812New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo 273 pages. In Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: “$6.95”. Boards in black cloth; slight wear to spine caps and corners lightly cocked spine with mild buckle to spine. Text block has red tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf erasure on front pastedown small stain to rear flyleaf. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400812. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2001réf. 1400982London: Flamingo 2001. Hardcover. Octavo 478 pages. In Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is green with white and black print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: “£16.99”. Boards in green cloth. Text block has slight spine crack at title page age toning to paper. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400982. FP New Rockville Stock. Flamingo hardcover books
1972réf. 170613New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. 308 pages. A collection of stories from the Nobel Prize winning author of such classics as "The Golden Notebook." A tight near fine copy with a few small spots to the top edge in a very near fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1972réf. 1401278New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo 308 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with white blue and green print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear peripheral toning. Price unclipped: “$6.95”. "Review copy" slip inserted between mylar and rear panel. Boards in green cloth; slight wear to spine caps peripheral toning. Text block has green tinted top edge. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1401278. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1972réf. 517169New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth. Tiny stains on the rear fly and colophon page else about fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple tiny tears on the front flap fold and faint scratch marks. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover 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
1972réf. 705818NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1972. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
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
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
1965réf. 275634Freiburg Germany: Herder 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. First edition. Illustrated. Lacking the slipcase else fine in a fair dustwrapper with rubbing and owner-repaired tears. Herder hardcover books
1965réf. 45923Freiburg Germany: Herder 1965. Square 4to pp. 261 plus pictorial index. With commentaries by C. Kerenyi Michel Gall Hellmut Sichtermann. Translated by Kevin Smyth. Map on endpapers. Illustrated with 115 color plates. Cover slightly warped and stained on edges o/w a VG tight copy in worn dj. Heavy. Herder unknown books
1987réf. 1399737New York New York: Vintage Books: Random House 1987. First Paperback Edition First Printing. Softcover. Small octavo 171 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is blue with white lettering. Wraps have mild shelving wear along spine head and rear head joint. Textblock has light foxing along head edge. Signed flat on title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1399737. Special Collections - Upstairs. Vintage Books: Random House unknown 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
1951réf. 517146London: Michael Joseph 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small soil spot on spine endpapers and edges lightly foxed else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; jacket has light toning. Author's first collection of short stories. Michael Joseph hardcover books
2000réf. 14338London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 000225705X . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition with slightly yellowed page edges in Fine dustjacket this copy is SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on the title page; This new collection of fourteen African stories paints a powerful picture of the South Africa Doris Lessing grew up in. In story after story she portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races and also the majestic beauty and timeless landscape of her homeland; Vol. 1; 8vo ; Signed by Author . Flamingo hardcover books
1988réf. 120829Helsinki: Eurographica 1988. First edition limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Lessing on the title page. This copy also dated by her "1988" presumambly all copies dated. Copy #196. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. Perfect-bound printed wraps with French-fold flaps. Issued without dustjacket. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper. No. 25 in the publisher's "Contemporary Authors" series. Unread copy in Fine condition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Eurographica paperback books
1963réf. 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 books
1968réf. 611856New York: Stein and Day 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 196pp. A touch rubbed at the corners and an ink stamp on front flyleaf near fine in very good dust jacket with some creasing light edgewear and ink notations by the printed price. A collection of stories by Doris Lessing Ronald Blythe John Pudney Fred Urquhart and Ronald Duncan among others. Stein and Day hardcover books
2004réf. 1001396London and New York: Fourth Estate 2004. First edition of this collection of critical essays by Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing most dealing with the unpredictable aftershocks of reading: "I do not believe that one can be changed by a book or by a person unless there is already something present latent or in embryo ready to be changed." Lessing's subjects range from classic authors Richardson Stendhal Austen Tolstoy to contemporaries Anna Kavan Nirad Chaudhuri Christabel Bielenberg Niccolò Tucci. A fine copy signed by Lessing in the year of publication. Single volume measuring 9 x 6 inches: viii 376. Original pale grey paper boards lettered in gilt pale blue endpapers original unclipped photographic dust jacket. Signed and dated on the title page: "Doris Lessing / 19th October 04.". Fourth Estate unknown books
1995réf. ULESUND02fpHarperPerennial 1995. Fine. Lessing Doris May. Under My Skin. New York: HarperPerennial 1995. 419 16 of latespp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. HarperPerennial paperback books
1994réf. 86930New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1997. First American Editions. First Printings. Two octavo volumes 24.25cm; grey and dark blue paper-covered boards with burgundy and navy blue cloth backstrips with titles stamped in silver and gilt on spines; dustjackets; xii4191; x2-4042pp; illus. Pictorial bookplates of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 mounted to front pastedowns of each volume. About Fine in Fine unclipped dustjackets. Sharp set of the Nobel Prize-winning author's autobiography. 86930. HarperCollins Publishers unknown books
1994réf. 1391335New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1994 1997. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jackets. Spine two shades of grey with black lettering. Dust jackets protected with mylar coverings. Prices uncut: "$25.00" and "$27.50". Jackets with very light shelf wear to heads and tails; two instances of very minor marking to jacket of vol. 2. Light bumping to heads and tails of book spines; very slight discoloration to edges of boards. Top edge of vol. 2 text block moderately foxed; minor foxing to fore edge of same text block. Both volumes signed flat by Lessing on title page. CONTENTS: UNDER MY SKIN: VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949 419 pages. -- WALKING IN THE SHADE: 1949-1962 404 pages. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391335. Special Collections - Downstairs. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
