Cleft by Lessing Doris: First Edition (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket slightly bumped at head of spine and nicked at tail of spine.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any book priced at $10 or more, please just ask! American first edition, second printing. Contains number line 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. Remainder mark. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Tight spine, square boards and pointed tips, with pages laying tightly together as new. Dust jacket is not clipped and looks nice in a shiny mylar dust protector. Packaging suitable for wrapping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy, unread. Has remainder dot on bottom pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st printing (with number sequence beginning with 1). FINE (no names, bookplates, or writing of any kind, etc.) with FINE dust jacket with the $25.95 price intact. As new.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First U.S. Edition. As new, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {BUND}.

Condition: FINE. First US printing. One of her last novels, published the same year as she was awarded the Nobel Prize - an invitation "to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator embarks on what may be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, in the valley of an overshadowing mountain." 260 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. First issue dj without the Nobel laureate seal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st U. S. Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Third Printing. Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ, slight foxing to edges of reading block. ; Third printing of UK first edition, 2007. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. DJ illustration by Richard Bravery. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 272 pages; An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of an overshadowing mountain. The Clefts have no need nor knowledge of men childbirth is controlled, like the tides that lap around their feet, through the cycles of the moon, and their children are always female. But with the unheralded birth of a strange, new child a boy the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy. 145 X 26 X 221 millimeters.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is slightly shelf rubbed and marked.Internally clean.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition; 1st Printing.

Condition: Good. N. Y.: Harper, 2008. 260 pp. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Cover has some edge rubbing, rub to bottom front corner.No spine creases. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked. No noticed corner folds. First Harper Perennial Edition. Trade Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, half boards black & white, unclipped, gold embossed gilt spine, 1st U.S. edition, bubble wrapped, mylar pro: 5* seller. An invitation "to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator embarks on what may be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coast.…

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 8.3 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 272 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Faint shelf wear on front panel.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Fourth Estate, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing's lifetime, the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.…

First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dustjacket.

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

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. A near fine (or better) copy in like D/W. Inscribed by the Author on the half-title page: For Lucy --/ with good wishes/ Doris Lessing/ Jan 2007. Inexplicably uncommon signed. Signed by Author.