Cleft by Lessing Doris, Signed (4 results)

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.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper grubby overall, if complete and not edgeworn, with small coffee marks to the upper panel. Leans vaguely. The contents complete, clean and tight; Signed copy. Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 260; 2nd impression, (2007). Signed by the author, in name only, on the title page without provenance. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202810 ||.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 Condition: 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.