Lessing, DorisABAA
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rif. WELLER9780063463097New. New book. unknown books
1952rif. 34372London: Boosey & Hawkes 1952. Octavo. 393 pp. Full blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. Binding slightly worn; spine slightly faded; lacking material in rear pocket. Boosey & Hawkes unknown books
1984rif. 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
1984rif. 709743NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. Advance Review Copy. 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
1984rif. 709744NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. 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
1984rif. 709742NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf paperback books
1984rif. 1391290New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine blue with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$13.95". Light plus creasing at head of dust jacket spine. Jacket with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jacket spine and to jacket corners. Top edge of text block foxed. Signed flat by Lessing on title page as both Lessing and Somers. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. Doris Lessing published two works this work and THE DIARY OF A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 1983 under the pseudonym Jane Somers in order to highlight the publishing industry's bias in favor of authors who had already achieved significant financial success. As she expected the works published pseudonymously sold far fewer copies and met with significantly less critical acclaim than the works published under her own name. 1391290. Special Collections - Downstairs. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1961rif. 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
1961rif. 517168New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine and toning on the board edges else very good in a very good dust jacket with toning. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1961rif. 517167New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Owner name and date on the front free endpaper else fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some toning. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1961rif. 3026New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket clipped generally rubbed and toned a few closed tears and chips including a sizable one at the center of the spine. Blue-green cloth faded and toned at the edges with black ink panels and lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain some toning to the endpapers clean otherwise. Lessing's novel about "the lusty quarrelsome unscrupulous funny pathetic full-bloodied life in a working-class rooming house. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1961rif. 307066New York: Simon & Schuster 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good with small ink smudge on bottom page fine edges in a very good dust jacket with small chip on top front panel edge. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1961rif. 705807NY: Simon & Schuster. 1961. First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1977rif. 219419London: Granada 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Very good in fine dust jacket. Reprint. Pages clean. Edges of spine lightly bumped. Minor spine lean. Solid book. Dustwrapper clean and glossy. Granada hardcover books
1960rif. ULESPUR00drpMacGibbon & Kee 1960. Very Good. Lessing Doris. In Purusuit of the English. London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. 1st edition. 240pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners and slightly rolled spine. Small sticker and stain on front pastedown. Weak rear hinge. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with faded spine and rubbing. In DJ protector. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
1960rif. 125255New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. An early book from this important British writer. A clean near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a tear to the top and bottom of the front panel and some fading to the spine which also has a tiny chip at the base. Still a very nice copy. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1893rif. 133975Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth 1893. Hardcover. Good Plate images in beautiful condition but with ex-lib. stamps on reverse. A few pages have chipping to edges that affect only the margins not images or text. Portfolio boards are detached at the hinge. Other usual ex-lib. marks. Portfolio with thin stiff uncovered boards and blue cloth at corners and over spine. Approximately 4 letterpress pages and 12 color plates loose as issued. In German. Oversize. Beautiful color plates of intricate Italian baroque and rococo ceiling designs. Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth hardcover books
1909rif. 51121New York: Desmond Fitzgerald 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in pictorial boards with a tanned spine and slight fraying at the edge of the spine. Arthur Brentano's copy with his ownership initials on the front fly. Desmond Fitzgerald hardcover books
1971rif. 123561New York: Herder and Herder. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Cloth. An edition in Fine condition housed in a Nearly Fine dust-jacket with some chipping to the outer edges ; This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date and lively account of Jesus and his culture in the New Testament. It presents a balanced and nuanced understanding of Jesus and his place in history and culture offering readers a new and refreshing perspective on the gospel story.; 4to; 292 pages . Herder and Herder hardcover books
1986rif. 52476New York: Summit Books 1986. First printing. Hardcover. near fine. Folio. 283 1pp. Indices glossary and bibliography. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color. "Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture from birth to death during the Sabbath and the other holy days at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts Torah binders Esther scrolls Seder plates noise makers mezzuzahs amulets paintings and other objects of wood metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period wherever Jews have lived. Contents: Preface - From the Beginning. Jewish art and the Second Commandment - Marriage. The art of the ketubbah -- The Home. "And upon they gates" -- Birth. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Sabbath. "Desire of all days" -- Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur and Sukkot. "Days of awe days of rejoicing" -- Chanukkah. "The miracle that happened there" -- Purim. "Cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai" -- Passover. "Remember the day you went forth from Egypt" -- The Synagogue. "In the house of assembly" -- Glossary - Bibliography. Previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper otherwise near fine copy. Summit Books hardcover books
1986rif. 39118New York: Summit Books 1986. First printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. 283 1pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color "Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture from birth to death during the Sabbath and the other holy days at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts Torah binders Esther scrolls Seder plates noise makers mezzuzahs amulets paintings and other objects of wood metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period wherever Jews have lived. Minor shelf wear. Slight age-toning along paper margin. DJ binding and interior in overall very good condition. Summit Books hardcover books
1951rif. 109140Munich 1951. hardcover. 8 color plates 58 black-and-white illustrations. 4to cloth d.w. Munchen 1951. unknown books
1912rif. 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
1990rif. 23212Paris: Berg international 1990. Reprint. Softcover. vg. Sm. 4to. 172pp. Stiff gray printed wrappers. Text in French. Overall very good condition. Berg international unknown books
2009rif. 2351660New York: Penguin Classics 2009. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 5x1x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2009 Hard Cover. xxxv 1 363 1 pp. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Squires with an introduction by Doris Lessing. With her soft brown hair lithe figure and big wondering eyes Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid she is almost as inwardly paralyzed as her husband Clifford is paralyzed below the waist. It is not until she finds refuge in the arms of Mellors the game-keeper a solitary man of a class apart that she feels regenerated. Together they move from an outer world of chaos towards an inner world of fulfillment. Penguin Classics hardcover books
