Briefing Descent Hell by Lessing, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Jonathan Cape 1971, Uncorrected proof. Booker prize shortlisted, signed by author to title page. VG+ with faint foxing to textblock, slight creasing to top of spine and front corners and some browning to spine. Acetate protective sleeve. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). Stated 1st AMERICAN edition, no numberline (1st printing). Dust jacket has faint edgewear, now in a protective mylar sleeve. Book has some toning to the pageblock and slight shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards. The top of the pageblock is sprayed black. By the late Nobel Prize-, David Cohen Prize-, Somerset Maugham Award-, Prix Médicis étranger-, Shakespeare Prize-, WH Smith Literary Award-, Palermo Prize-, Premio Internazionale Mondello-, Grinzane Cavour Prize-, James Tait Black Memorial Prize-, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-, Catalonia International Prize-, Premio Príncipe de Asturias-, and S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award-winning author of The Canopus in Argos: Archives series and the Children of Violence novels. Signed American editions are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth-gilt, dustwrapper, 308pp. First edition, stated. Signed by Lessing at the head of the title-page. A VG to VG+ book in a VG dustwrapper. Book: clean cloth, straight corners, bright titling, lightly soiled ends (see pictures); light soiling to the lower edge of the text-block, others clean; very sound hinges & joints; clean, unmarked, undamaged text and pages, clean endpapers. Jacket: unclipped, just a touch toned at the edges of the flaps and with light offsetting to the underside from the two gilt-designed blocks at the front board and spine; small closed tear to the head of the front panel, lightly rubbed at the spine ends. Quite presentable. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 308 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue and yellow lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$6.95", has mild shelving wear, chipping along the head fore corners, and a small open tear along the spine head edge. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, stains along the edges and joints, and bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391288. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo, 251 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "£1.60 net", has chipping along the extremities, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, mild age-toning along the edges, and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391299. Special Collections.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First British Edition, First Impression. Near Fine Book in a Near Fine Pictorial Dust Jacket, Price Clipped. Signed by Author to the half title page. Book is lightly rubbed to extremities and has some moderate foxing to text block. Rear free endpaper has some soiling. Binding is tight and square and text is clean internally. Dust jacket has a trade sticker shadow to front inside flap. Lightly shelf worn with some pronounced bumping and whitening to corners. Jacket designed by Alan Tunbridge. Hardcover. Octavo. 251pp. Publisher's Brown Cloth with Gilt Detailing.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition First State (with the red top edge). SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Publisher's dark brown boards with gilt spine lettering. Slight pushing at the spine tips otherwise a near fine copy (with a former owner's neat name in the top left hand corner of the front paste-down) in a fine D/W with no fading whatsoever to the red spine lettering. Signed and Dated by the author on the front free end-paper: Doris Lessing/ June 1971. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET VERY GOOD+. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COPY. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine-. 1st Edition. Bottom of boards have three very small bumps. Signed by Author(s).