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1969ref. 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
1969ref. 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
1969ref. 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
1969ref. 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
1969ref. D16691New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth; dust-jacket. A nice copy lightly worn. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1969ref. 18417London: Macgibbon and Kee 1969. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN COPY WITH A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Final novel in the acclaimed Martha Quest series. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Macgibbon and Kee hardcover
1969ref. 300301New York: Alfed A. Knopf 1969 New York: Alfed A. Knopf 1969 614 pp. Text is clean tight and unmarked. Endpapers have several small marks. Black cloth boards with silver stamping on spine are clean and square but have the faint traces of tape fore and aft. DJ is clean bright undamaged. not price-clipped. In mylar cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Alfed A. Knopf hardcover
1969ref. 0076656New York: Knopf 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by the author to Canadian literary figure Greg Gatenby on the title page. 1969 First American edition. The final volume of Lessing's Children of Violence series. 613 pp. Hardcover black cloth. Very Good copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Light rubbing to the cloth; shelfwear along bottom edge; faint stain on the fly leaf; Gatenby's signature on the fly leaf; clean text. The DJ shows shallow loss and tearing at the spine ends; light edgewear; creasing to the rear inner flap. The DJ is now housed in a mylar wrap. Inscribed by Lessing. Digital images available upon request. Knopf hardcover
1969ref. 17307New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first American edition/first printing in Fine condition with bright yellow top-stain ever so slightly toned in very Nearly Fine slightly rubbed dust-jacket with a 1/4" closed tear in the back; The Four-Gated City was praised as Nobel Prize laureate Lessing's most important work since the Golden Notebook. In the four previous novels set in Africa and looking back to the past Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch here she carries her protagonist Martha Quest to London and the world - into the present and the future ; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1977ref. RO60120165Panther. 1977. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 671 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1969ref. 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
1969ref. 517147New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges faint spotting on topedge near fine in a very good dust jacket with an interior dampstain along the bottom edge that mainly shows through on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1969ref. 517158New York: Alfred A Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Endpapers lightly toned at edges tiny tear on bottom edge near fine in a very good dust jacket with light soiling and a couple small tears on the cover. The fifth and last volume in the author's semi-autobiographical The Children of Violence series. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1969ref. D16691New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth; dust-jacket. A nice copy lightly worn. Signed by the Nobel Prize winning author. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969ref. 151151New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good plus dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969ref. 29658NY: Knopf 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 614. VG in chipped and soiled dj. Knopf unknown books
1976ref. 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
1969ref. 17307New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first American edition/first printing in Fine condition with bright yellow top-stain ever so slightly toned in very Nearly Fine slightly rubbed dust-jacket with a 1/4" closed tear in the back; The Four-Gated City was praised as Nobel Prize laureate Lessing's most important work since the Golden Notebook. In the four previous novels set in Africa and looking back to the past Doris Lessing has explored the end of an epoch here she carries her protagonist Martha Quest to London and the world - into the present and the future ; 8vo . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969ref. 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 books
1969ref. 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 books
1976ref. UTHE01LWPlume 1976. Very Good. Lessing Doris. The Four-Gated City: A Complete Novel from Doris Lessing's Masterwork Children of Violence. New York: Plume 1976. 614pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with creased spine and bumped corners. Plume paperback books
1990ref. 320078Easton Press 1990. Full-Leather -- As New in original shrinkwrap -- SHIPPING ONLY IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA RATE ONLY -- Dark brown leather with gilt embossing to cover spine and gilt to all edgres. Full-Leather. As New. Easton Press Hardcover
1995ref. 1207Terrail 1995. Paperback. Near Fine. 207 pp. Near Fine condition Terrail paperback
2001ref. RO60066419Terrail. 2001. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 207 pages. Photo en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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
