somers jane doris lessing (42 resultados)

Condición: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; PHOTOS EMAILED WHEN ASKEDPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st American edition. First American edition. Cloth/boards. NF in VG DJ.

Condición: As New. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. 1st American edition. In protective mylar cover.

Condición: Used: Like New. Fine book/near fine jacket. 1st ptg. Unclipped.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. First Edition. First American edition, stated. Lessing used the Jane Somers pseudonym for this and "The Diary of a Good Neighbour," to make a point about the difficulties faced by new writers. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped; faint foxing to top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $13.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.

Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: near fine. Hbk, 249pp, stated 1st American edition, dj very faintly rubbed at extremities, otherwise fine, unclipped ($13.95) and now in protective sleeve, internally an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked text, as new.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. 253 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). A copy with browning to the page block thus near fine; in a dust jacket with light scuff marks and minor shelf wear thus near fine.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Advance Review Copy. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. NY: Knopf, 1984. First American edition. New in dust jacket, with just a touch of wear to the extremeties of the jacket. A difficult copy to find in excellent condition due to the delicate dust jacket. Lessing wrote the book and sent it to pubslihers under a false name and stumped them all except for the editors at Knopf, who recognized the wrok as hers. A nice tight unread copy. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 250 p. 23 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Pages browning a little.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. US hardback first edition, SIGNED at title page as Doris Lessing and Jane Somers with no further inscriptions. VG in Good jacket with some rubbing and spine fade. Signed by Author.

250pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, a little sunned with title written down spine. A near fine copy. Proof copy.

Condición: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. Close to fine in a fine dj. (Faint foxing at top edge. A few spots of foxing at rear dj. flap. No remainder marks) Nobel Prize laureate.

Hard Cover. First American Edition. Very fine in price-clipped else VF dustjacket. |.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 253 p. 23 cm. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st American Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Lessing on a bookplate decal affixed to front end page (signature only). $13.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Also laid-in is origional review from NY Times Book Review. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with edgewear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£8.95). The second book written by Doris Lessing under the pseudonym Jane Somers. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a little patchy browning to back, the odd small mark, odd small crease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, a few small scratches (mainly to front), a little patchy browning/odd small mark/spots of foxing to reverse (white side) and browning/odd small marks/minor foxing to front/back inner flaps. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are tanned (due to quality of paper used). Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark/spots of foxing. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£7.95). First book written by Doris Lessing under the pseudonym Jane Somers. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd very small mark, odd small cease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, a little patchy browning/odd small mark/spots of foxing to reverse (white side) and a little browning/ceasing/minor foxing to front/back inner flaps. Boards care very good with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd small bump to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are tanned (due to quality of paper used). Very occasional small mark to pages. End-papers are tanned with the odd small mark/minor foxing. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st American Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Lessing on a bookplate decal affixed to front end page (signature only-as Doris Lessing). First published book under pseudonym. DJ lightly rubbed. $12.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Also includes laid-in is the original 1984 Newsweek Magazine article on discovery that Jane Somers is actually Doris Lessing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. 250 pages. A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, published under a pseudonym as a stunt, to show the treatment of books by unknown authors. ''I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success,' '' she said in a recent telephone conversation from London. ''If the books had come out in my name, they would have sold a lot of copies and reviewers would have said, 'Oh, Doris Lessing, how wonderful.' As it is, there were almost no reviews, and the books sold about 1,500 copies here and scarcely 3,000 copies each in the United States.''--Lessing, in the New York Times, September 23, 1984. Lessing's long-time British publisher declined to publish either of the two 'Jane Somers' novels before they knew the author was Lessing. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear at the corners. Signed by the author as Doris Lessing.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. 253 pages. A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, published under a pseudonym as a stunt, to show the treatment of books by unknown authors. ''I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success,' '' she said in a recent telephone conversation from London. ''If the books had come out in my name, they would have sold a lot of copies and reviewers would have said, 'Oh, Doris Lessing, how wonderful.' As it is, there were almost no reviews, and the books sold about 1,500 copies here and scarcely 3,000 copies each in the United States.''--Lessing, in the New York Times, September 23, 1984. Lessing's long-time British publisher declined to publish either of the two 'Jane Somers' novels before they knew the author was Lessing. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with minor scuffing to covers and light fading to spine, thus near fine. Signed by the author as Doris Lessing on the title page.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edges are lightly foxed. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Front and rear endpapers are very slightly foxed, front and rear free endpapers have stains. Pages are lightly discoloured towards edges. Else this book is in very good condition. Dust wrapper is slightly creased towards some edges, with some discolouration and staining. Otherwise in very good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.