Golden Notebook by Lessing, Signed (11 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reissue with Author's Introduction. Presentation SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, beige cloth, with an Introduction by the author, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson, xxiv + [566] pages. SIGNED Presentation Copy in excellent condition internally and externally of the author's important 1962 novel, now reissued WITH HER INTRODUCTION a near-decade later. From my experience, Lessing didn't like to sign copies of her works, and signed copies of this, her most noteworthy work, are Scarce. The person(a) I knew tended to be hardheaded, diffident, and a bit crusty, though she made the rounds on behalf of her publisher a few years before her death, when I was fortunately able and very pleased to speak with her briefly and to obtain her signature. According to Elizabeth Hardwick, "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women,"--The New York Times Book Review. A tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket has a bit of rubbing at extremities; Random House remainder stamp on bottom of pages.

Janet Halverson (illustrator). ** SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ** The Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Near Fine to Fine in a very good dustjacket dust jacket wear on dust jacket, also worn on top and bottom of spine on dustjacket. Price clipped on bottom right of dustjacket. This copy is protected I. A removable protective covering. Pages are crisp and corners are sharp. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Enjoy!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine++. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. Third printing of the 1972 Revised (ie.2nd edition and Classiic Collection First Edition). Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the half-title page as follows: (Frst name Lastname/ Sincerely/ Doris Lessing/ 30th June 1986. Book has slight roll-in at the bottom of the spine below the textblock (and less so at the top); boards and topstain are still their original unblemished dark red; all board corners are still sharp; gilt lettering and border on the spine are still 'as new' bright and text pages and endpapers are free of any other inscription or blemish. Mylar-protected, unclipped(£11.95net), unrubbed and unfaded (except some 2-5% on the spine) dustwrapper has a little wrinkling at top of spine; otherwise is very fine. While not an original edition, it is still a rare example of an inscribed-by-the-author revised edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's seminal and most famous book. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on the front free endpaper. V.S. Naipaul (1932â"2018) was a Trinidad-born novelist and essayist whose works, including A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), and A Bend in the River (1979), probe the complexities of postcolonial identity, exile, and cultural dislocation with a style noted for its clarity and irony. Widely recognized for both his fiction and travel writing, he received numerous honors, most notably the Booker Prize in 1971 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, cementing his reputation as one of the most significant literary voices of the late twentieth century. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by William Belcher. An exceptional association. "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women" (Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times Book Review).

Hardcover. First American Edition; First Printing. Octavo, 568 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with white, red, and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Price uncut: "$9.95". Jacket with light age toning and moderate marking. Moderate shelf wear and creasing to head and tail of jacket spine; moderate shelf wear to jacket edges and corners. Several closed tears to jacket edges, including a moderate tear (approx. 2 in.) to top edge of front of jacket, near spine. Light plus bumping to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Cloth of binding with light plus discoloration at edges and corners. Edges of text block with light plus age toning; light smudging through page 10 of text block, including title page. Ink ownership inscription of previous owner to front free endpaper. Signed flat by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 7. 1391298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Lessing on the title page, housed in a custom clamshell case. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (30s net), lightly toned and rubbed at the surface and edges, a small closed tear at the bottom edge. Brown buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Lessing's magnum opus about writer Anna Wulf and her writing notebooks, an exploration of contemporary social and political issues. Signed.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. "I looked at her, and thought: That's my child, my flesh and blood. But I couldn't feel it. She said again: `Play, mummy.' I moved wooden bricks for a house, but like a machine. Making myself perform every movement. I could see myself sitting on the floor, the picture of a `young mother playing with her little girl.' Like a film shot, or a photograph." These words exemplify the themes Lessing struggled with in The Golden Notebook. They question the notion of identity. In the above quote, the protagonist cannot reconcile who she needs to be, to remain healthy and whole, with what the ideologies of society require her to be. This obsession with constructing a comprehensive sense of identity leads to an infinite fictionalization of the protagonist's life. Lessing's work is not only a significant feminist polemic; it is a multilayered glance into the political climate of the 1960's.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET VERY GOOD+. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. Just signed -- no inscription. Bookplate is attached to the book. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST U.S. PRINTING. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY. Signed by Author.

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

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. About this Item First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dustjacket dust jacket wear on dust jacket, also worn on top and bottom of spine on dustjacket.Price clipped on bottom right of dustjacket. Pages are crisp and corners are sharp. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. "I looked at her, and thought: That's my child, my flesh and blood. But I couldn't feel it. She said again: `Play, mummy.' I moved wooden bricks for a house, but like a machine. Making myself perform every movement. I could see myself sitting on the floor, the picture of a `young mother playing with her little girl.' Like a film shot, or a photograph." These words exemplify the themes Lessing struggled with in The Golden Notebook. They question the notion of identity. In the above quote, the protagonist cannot reconcile who she needs to be, to remain healthy and whole, with what the ideologies of society require her to be. This obsession with constructing a comprehensive sense of identity leads to an infinite fictionalization of the protagonist's life. Lessing's work is not only a significant feminist polemic; it is a multilayered glance into the political climate of the 1960's.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by Doris Lessing on the title page. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light sunning to cover, former owner name to front paste down, hinge at title page lightly exposed and sporadic marking throughout text and to rear free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, edge wear and soiling. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel.