Briefing Descent Hell by Lessing, First Edition (63 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. ----------paperback. Minor shelfwear, a near fine copy.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Minus. 1st Edition. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Tight spine, square boards and pointed tips, with pages laying tightly together as new. Dark top stain. Dust jacket IS price clipped and looks nice in a shiny mylar dust protector. Packaging suitable for wrapping.

Paperback. first thus. almost near fine, unread, rear small scratch paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. D-j has shelf wear and a small chip on bottom back. Top edge has a few spots. Small bump and stain on bottom of back board. Stain of FFEP. Back board stained.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Like new with one dog-eared page. Spine tight, pages clean, jacket lovely.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. With author's photograph on rear dust jacket. Publisher's top stain to edge of text block. Clean text and interior. Unclipped dust jacket, with creasing to inner flap, now in Brodart. 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - slight wear to dust jacket - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - includes 2 promotional photographs of Lessing - reviewer copy - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tan cloth, lettered in gold foil, black topstain. As issued. Dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. Stated 1st ed. 310 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. VG++/VG++. 1st Edition. 'Inner space fiction'. Jacket by Alan Tunbridge. BOOK: All corners bumped. JACKET: Mild edgewear, irregular tear on bottom front panel. Scan on request.

First edition first impression. In excellent all-round condition. Not price-clipped. No inscriptions. Near Fine book, just a little dusty with age (aren't we all). Near Fine DJ. Protected in removable sleeve, a very small (2mm) rub to the bottom right hand corner of the spine. Lovely copy.

Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight, superb first edition of the Nobel Prize winner's best known novel.

Interesting provenance - has the bookplate of Naomi Mitchison to the ffep (novelist and poet. "doyenne of Scottish literature"). First edition first impression. Not price-clipped. No inscriptions. The top edge of the jacket (above the protective sleeve) is rubbed, there is a very slight shelf-lean (2mm). VG/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine copy, in a very good dust jacket, of the stated first edition. The decorated coarse cream cloth binding is clean and unworn, with strong gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and the front board. Everything is square and tight, with sharp unbumped edges and corners. Inside there are a few small checkmarks to a list of the author's previous works. Otherwise there are no inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The dust jacket is unclipped ($6.96), and intact with only very minor edgewear, mainly comprising a few nibbles to the top of the spine. 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. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Knopf, 1971. Octavo. Hardcover. Black topstain. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and sticker partially removed on left flap.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Dust jacket has minor rubbing, else fine.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. the boards are shelf worn, a bit knocked. foxing and markings. ownership inscriptions. text remains legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. First edition. 12mo. A novel. Corner of front free endpaper clipped, otherwise Fine. Light edgewear to jacket. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small tears and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 251 pages (complete). Dust jacket a bit shelf rubbed, has small edge tears, corner nip. Boards shelf rubbed and marked. Previous ownership inscriptions, light foxing damp marks- not affecting the text. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit torn. tanning, soiling and foxing inside book. well bound. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tunbridge, Alan (illustrator). First Edition. The boards have a little light edge wear only. Light browning to the page edges. Small stain at the top of the front pastedown. Original owner's name in pen to the front free endpaper - this was the academic and author Sally Cline who died in 2022. The pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a one inch closed tear with some creasing around it to the bottom left corner of the front panel with another half-inch closed tear towards the bottom right corner and two small tears to the top edge. The rear panel has a one inch closed tear to the top edge near the right corner and another small tear near the the top left corner. Jacket design by Alan Tunbridge. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Pink top page edges. Very good indeed. The dust jacket is price clipped but otherwise in fine condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1st edition (stated) Near fine/very good plus (price-clipped; previous owner inscription on first blank page).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 1971 Alfred A. Knopf. Stated:"First Edition". First Printing. No marks or writing of any kind. Like new, clearly unread. Dust jacket has small straightened creases on corners of inner flaps, no tears (as pictured). Original 6.95 price intact, protected in an archival Brodart cover. Ivory cloth covered boards with gilt text and spiraling design. Publishers black top stain on page edges and black endpapers. A very nicely preserved vintage first edition. Gift quality collectable.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Author's publicity photo and a review slip included. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. First Printing. a Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped. 308pp. Q11625.