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1988rif. 86417New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Edition with the price intact on the front flap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1989rif. Q-0586089039HARPER COLLINS 1989-09-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HARPER COLLINS paperback
1988rif. 15206New York: Alfred A Knopf 1988. First Edition. 8vo quarter navy cloth over boards in the dust jacket. 133 pp. A copy in fine condition. Alfred A Knopf hardcover
rif. 56800793-6Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
1988rif. 1391302New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 133 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with white and red lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$16.95". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Very light bumping to head and tail of jacket spine. Light bumping and discoloration to tail of book spine. Slight age toning to paste downs. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391302. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1988rif. 1327Knopf New York 1988 First Edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A nice clean copy. FICTION. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Knopf (New York) hardcover
rif. 0586091270.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1988rif. Q-0394571053Alfred A. Knopf 1988-03-12. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1989rif. Q-0679721827Vintage 1989-05-14. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
1988rif. 003489London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mervyn Peake jacket art. The story is about a family's fifth child who is dramatically different from the four older siblings. A Lessing horror story. 133 pp. Tail of spine is ever so slightly rubbed. Priceclipped DJ has closed tear/ chip at head of spine. Bookseller's Inventory # 133489. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1988rif. 6145NY: Knopf 1988. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning foxing on foreedge and topedge; dustjacket with interior edge toning not apparent on the outside and minimal rubbing on rear panel. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's ninth novel; her seventh without a pseudonym. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover
1988rif. 19616London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First edn. 8vo pp. 133. A fine copy in little wrinkled dj. A horror story. Jonathan Cape unknown
1988rif. 001628New York: Knopf 1988. SIGNED by the author on the half title. A novel of a family falling apart because of an enormously difficult child played out against the background of a society unable to deal with its own brutal side. Very good faint foxing mostly on rough-cut side page edges otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Knopf Hardcover
rif. 1892123223.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 17-3504Washington D.C.: Library of Congress 1953. 8vo. 119 pp. Soft cover. Very Good. Typographical paper wraps. Some shelf wear. Illustrated plates throughout.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953. paperback
1970rif. 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
1970rif. 57563North Hills: Birf & Bull Press 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. #142 of 250cc. Slim quart bound in publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with facsimile catalog in chemise in rear. Pages slightly tanned esle a very good example. Birf & Bull Press hardcover
1970rif. 16315North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text but fades as it gets away from boards appears to be offset from glue in binding. Otherwise in excellent condition. Neat previous owner's inscription on front free end paper. Number 56 of the 160 copies printed for members of the Philobiblon Club on handmade paper from a total edition of 250 copies. A fabulous story of one of the world's great biblio hoaxes. Neat inscription on front pastedown from Mort Whitehead to Robert K. Johnson. Bird & Bull Press hardcover
1969rif. 1110New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. Very Good. First American edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Margaret". A second likely previous owner's signature appears below the inscription. Original cloth in the original illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket is unclipped retaining the original $7.50 price on the front flap. Condition is Very Good; the jacket shows light edge wear and minor surface toning but remains highly presentable. The final volume in Lessing's acclaimed "Children of Violence" series a monumental social and psychological chronicle of post-war Britain. N1. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1969rif. 966T76London: Macgibbon & Kee; Jonathan Cape 1969-1988. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5"; 8" by 5.5". None. Three smart first edition novels from British writer Doris May Lessing. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Doris May Lessing a British novelist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize the Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience who with scepticism fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 87. This set contains: The Four-Gated City 1969. The concluding novel in Lessing's semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence. Moving to London Martha "is integrally part of the social history of the time - the Cold War the Aldermaston Marches Swinging London the deepening of poverty and social anarchy." The novel extends into science fiction depicting a dystopian future following the destruction of Britain. Briefing for a Descent into Hell 1971. A psychological novel. A well-dressed but disheveled man is found wandering alone at night on London's Embankment. Unable to remember anything he is escorted to a psychiatric hospital where he is identified as Charles Watkins a professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. The Fifth Child 1988. A short novel describing the changes in the happy life of a married couple Harriet and David Lovatt as a consequence of the birth of Ben their fifth child. In the original full cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with light wear to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and panel edges of The Four-Gated City. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Macgibbon & Kee; Jonathan Cape hardcover
1969rif. Q-0261618407MacGibbon & Kee 1969-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1995rif. Q-0060976675Harper Perennial 1995-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper Perennial paperback
1969rif. 0927H719386MacGibbon & Kee 1969-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1969 Macgibbon & Kee 1st edition 1st printing - double sided dust jacket - different graphics for each side - slight staining to page edge - otherwise dust jacket fine cover fine binding strong contents clean - a fine copy MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1969rif. 1391291New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 614 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$7.50". Jacket with light age toning and very light marking. Light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. One small closed tear to front of jacket near spine. Light bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text block. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. Volume V of Lessing's five-volume CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE series. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391291. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969rif. 1394859New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 613 3 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Blue spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$7.50" has mild shelving wear small tears along the joint corners stains along the extremities bending wear along the front flap and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild bending wear along the fore corners mild wear along the extremities and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges light foxing along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1394859. Special Collections - Upstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
