LESSING, DorisABAA
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1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 29658NY: Knopf 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 614. VG in chipped and soiled dj. Knopf unknown books
1976réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. Q-0261618407MacGibbon & Kee 1969-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MacGibbon & Kee hardcover
1995réf. Q-0060976675Harper Perennial 1995-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper Perennial paperback
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1993réf. RO20025229Flamingo. 1993. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 668 p.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1982réf. 65182NY: Montemora Foundation 1982. First edition. 78 pp. Near fine in glossy printed wrappers with faint foxing along top edge. NY: Montemora Foundation unknown books
1982réf. 19084NY: Montemora Foundation 1982. 8vo pages not numbered. Paper wraps. VG. Poems. Montemora Foundation 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
1970réf. 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 books
1970réf. 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 books
