african laughter four visits de lessing doris (110 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Broschiert. Condición: Gut. Reprint. 442 Seiten Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 375.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hard back first edition in fine condition in near fine price clipped dust jacket. (Book ref 5755).

HB. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. LIght edgewear to DJ at top, gift inscription on half-title page, else fine, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed with light creasing and tearing around the edges. The boards are slightly edge rubbed. The binding is secure. Ink inscriptions from a previous owner on the front end page. Protected in cellophane. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. First Printing. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. 442 pages. Not price-clipped, no inscriptions.

FIRST EDITION, Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Wraps. Condición: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. In manuscript form; printed plain paper (orange) wraps. A couple of very small light coloured spots on front cover and three on bottom edge. Uncorrected Proof.

Near fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is slightly bumped at spine tips and corners. 442 pages with two maps.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st US Printing. DJ is price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition. First printing (indicated by full number sequence, including the 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, which appears unread. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $25.00 intact. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo, 442 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards with gilt spine lettering, beige endpapers. This nonfiction account recounts four separate visits Doris Lessing made to Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1992, chronicling her impressions of the country s post-independence challenges and contradictions. Lessing, who was born in Iran and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

442pp. 8vo White boards and black cloth back 1st American edition so stated Fine/Fine 0-06-016854-4.

First Edition. Very good. Neat message on front free endpaper and edges lightly foxed. In a very good dust jacket with closed tears on middle of spine. Africana. Hardback. No dj.

First edition Very close to fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy, in a fine dust jacket, of the stated first US edition. The binding of black cloth spine over white boards is clean and unworn, with bold gilt lettering and a gilt blocked design to the front board. Everything is square and tight, with sharp unbumped edges and corners. Inside there are no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00), and fully intact with no discernible edge-wear. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. "Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in Kermanshah in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor. Her father, Alfred Cook Taylor, formerly a captain in the British army during the First World War, was a bank official. Her mother, Emily Maude Taylor, had been a nurse. In 1925 the family moved to a farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) hoping to improve their income. Lessing described her childhood on the farm in the first part of her autobiography, Under My Skin (1994). At the age of seven, she was sent to a convent boarding school but later moved to a girls' school in Salisbury. When 14 she independently ended her formal schooling. In the following years she worked as a young nanny, telephonist, office worker, stenographer and journalist and had several short stories published. In 1939 she married Frank Charles Wisdom with whom she had a son, John, and a daughter, Jean. The couple divorced in 1943. In 1945 Doris married Gottfried Lessing, a German-Jewish immigrant she had met in a Marxist group mainly concerned with the race issue. She became involved with the Southern Rhodesian Labour Party. She and Gottfried had a son, Peter. When the couple divorced in 1949, she took Peter and moved to London, quickly establishing herself as a writer. Between 1952 and 1956 she was a member of the British Communist Party and was active in the campaign against nuclear weapons. Because of her criticism of the South African regime, she was prohibited entry to that country between 1956 and 1995. After a brief visit to Southern Rhodesia in 1956, she was banned there as well for the same reason. In African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (1992) she described going back in 1982 to the country where she had grown up. She now lives in London". (Nobel Prize Site). Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Thus. Signed by the author on the half-title page. A Near Fine copy of the First U.S. Edition (stated, with complete number line) with a touch of wear and a very small green ink stain on bottom edge; dust jacket Very Good+ with light wear and a bit of scuffing. 442pp. // 'A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, afte r being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. In an original work, Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.' -- publisher.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American edition. Very good in very good plus dust jacket.

Soft Cover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in the publisher's stiff orange card wrappers, printed in black. 8vo. 556 pp. Lessing's stunning reportage chronicling her visits to Zimbabwe after banishment for 25 - years for her opposition to apar theid.

Unbound. Condición: Fine. First Edition. As new broadside. Issued on the occasion of reading by Lessing at Black Oak Books. Designed and printed at Okeanos Press. The passage on the broadside in titled "Passage" with 4 illustrations from the sea.

[0-06-016854-4] 1992, 1st U.S. Edition. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 442pp. "A highly personal story about returning to her African roots by the eminent British writer.a rich and penentrating portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland". Locale: Zimbabwe. (Travel, Memoir).

First edition, 8vo, xii, (iv), 442 pp. Signed on the title page by the author, unrelated gift inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, an excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. Signed by author on title page. Minor shelf wear to binding with long vertical discoloration on rear board. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Pages toning with age, otherwise text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn, toned, with small water stain on tail of spine & "Autographed" label on front panel in a mylar cover. PRIORITY SHIPPING PROVIDED IN THE USA FOR THE PRICE OF MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Orange wrappers. Slight creasing else near fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Publisher s boards in jacket. | The jacket a trifle creaset to head of spine and upper corner of front panel. A fine copy. | SIGNED by Lessing to title page. | The signature has been deep etched for catalogue presentation. Please contact us if you want more photos. Signed by Author.

Cloth and boards. Condición: Very Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Fine. First American Edition. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth over white boares, Mylar-protected dust jacket, xiii + 442 pages. Doris Lessing became the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. 442 pages. Recounts visits to the author's childhood home between 1982-1992 following a twenty-five-year ban for her opposition to the minority white government. First edition (first printing). Minor edge wear, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Pp. xvi+442. 2 full page maps, glossary; med. 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1992. First edition. *Recounts visits Lessing made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the former Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political beliefs.