Grass Singing by Doris Lessing, First Edition (43 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. First edition thus. 217 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Book Club Edition. Very Good in sunned and rubbed dust jacket. Gently used, no markings.

Paperback. first PB. 1045, very good -fine, reading crease (INTERRACIAL NOVEL), paperback,

Condition: Good-. 1st Penguin. A 1st Penguin ed. good- paperback, minor defects on cov. as in image, spine soiled 7 chipped on tail, text good+ with signs of aging. Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa. The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Highlighting in text, paper covers are clean but creased, and rubbed.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 2011 : New Edition : Fourth Estate For Waterstones : This Copy Is In Lovely Condition With Very Shiny Covers : Looks Un-Read : Just A Small Top Corner Crease To The Front Cover : Leaf Edge Yellowing On All 3 Sides This Is Possibly Production : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Clear Text : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Published In 2013 : 1st. Paperback Edition : Fourth Estate Publishing : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Very Good paperback ( pages age-toned, contents clean and unmarked). 218 pp Paperback. The first Penguin edition of this title. The image on this page is of the actual book for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 256pp. Brown cloth with yellow titles to spine. Cloth on rear boards lifting slightly and lightly marked, extremeties lightly faded. Pencilled ownership inscription to ffep. Last few pages with minimal evidence of damp. Otherwise a tight copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First Ace printing of the first paperback edition of this novel that was originally published by Michael Joseph in 1950. Small triangular chip out of bottom front corner. Otherwise the covers are clean and bright with only light edge wear. The pages are browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Quite a crisp copy. The postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Michael Joseph, London 1950, First Edition, second impression before publication. Condition Good +. No Dustjacket. Covered in brown boards. Some fading, and impression of label at bottom of front cover. (Boots Lending Library?)Spine worn with small tear at top, Yellow titles faded. Internally, clean and tight. no internal markings. Back page/spine paper torn, but cloth till tight. Doris Lessing's first novel, rare in first edition.

1st Edition. Hardback. Good, no d/w. Spine cocked and faded, boards unevenly faded, pages browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Impression. An excellent, clean and tightly bound book. Previous owner's name is neatly inked in Indian Ink on the flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/First printing published by Michael Joseph, London 1950. VG+ clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Sunning to edges and spine of cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped. small chip to top edge near spine and small nick to bottom edge. Protected in archive cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good/Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 245pp. Solid First Edition of the celebrated author's first book. Bound in yellow cloth with lettering in green on the spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of page toning. Very mild wear to extremities. Cloth a bit soiled. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($3.00), has a couple of tiny chips and closed edge-tears. Some rubbing to folds. Some soiling. Not perfect but still bright, complete and presents very well. An attractive collectable copy at a great price.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/First printing published by Michael Joseph, London 1950. VG+ clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Sunning to edges and spine of cloth covers. Dustjacket not price clipped. small chip to top edge near spine and small nick to bottom edge. Protected in archive cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. the jacket is an original jacket from a later edition.it is marked, worn, chipped and stained. the book which is the true first issue has a previous owner's signature and foxing , mainly on the early pages. the binding is strong. the rear hinge has broken but the book is sturdy. the binding is a little cocked. the original boards are shelf worn. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 256pp. Brown cloth lettered in yellow at the spine. Some spotting to the cloth, and also some uneven fading to the upper and lower boards, and some further fading to the backstrip. Just a tiny hint of spotting to the front free endpaper, but thereafter a lovely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The Nobel Prize winner's celebrated debut novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 256 pp Bound in brown cloth with yellow titles the book is in very good condition in a poor dust jacket. The book is faded on the spine where the jacket has loss and there is a small name and date on the front end paper. The jacket is 90% complete with the main loss at the spine tips, but is split down the spine edge and is now in 2 pieces. There is some tape repairs to the verso of the jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First Printing. About Fine in dull yellow paper covered boards, in a Very Good dull yellow dustwrapper, not price-clipped ("$3.00"), with a few nicks to lower edge, spine-ends. 245pp. Author's First Book, a novel. Nobel Prize winner. Q10906.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First printing of the first American edition (no additional printings listed). Author's first published novel. A very good plus copy with slight spine lean and mild bumping to to of the spine. The dust jacket is very good with some small chips to the top edges and some staining to the rear panel where reviews by the British press are printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition. Owner's small ink address on front flyleaf, boards are lightly soiled else a very good copy in good worn dust jacket with a number of short tears and few nicks, creased on spine and rear panel, entire length of spine has split at folds, and also at the folds of both flaps. Author's first novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. 256 pp. Brown cloth with yellow lettering to the spine, in a dustjacket. Cloth at the spine and edges faded. Jacket marked and torn with loss at the spine, and is in a protective plastic wrapper. Light spotting to the endpapers, but otherwise clean internally. This is Nobel Prize winner-Doris Lessing's first novel, which tells the story of a failed farmer and his wife in Rhodesia, explores racism and white supremacist ideology in South Africa during Aparteid. 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of Doris Lessing's powerful first novel, set in Southern Rhodesia during the 1940s. The first edition, first impression.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Grass is Singing' is British author Doris Lessing's debut novel, which takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and deals with the racial politics of the 1940s. It would foreshadow Lessing's talent in handling these themes and those similar in her future works.The work was an instant success upon its publication and was adapted into a film by a Swedish company in 1981 titled 'Graset Sjunger'. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with slight fading to the spine and light bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is chipped to the spine head, with a few smaller chips to the spine tail and front panel. Marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. With a small ink inscription to the front free endpaper, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

hardcover. [First U.S. Edition]. yellow cloth boards w/ blue-green lettering on spine; 245 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $3.00 on front flap, author photo by Hay Wrightson on rear. quote by Pamela Hansford Johnson on back cover. jacket design by Johannes Troyer, typography by George Nehrbas. good copy only in very good(+) dust jacket; stain to lower 1/3 spine area, slanting 1/2" onto front & rear boards towards bottom, & along bottom edges; light foxing to upper front, more to upper back; transparent stain to dusty top edge, tiny spot on bottom edge; endpapers clean & text block tight, w/ minor foxing on pgs 112-3; dust jacket has 1" closed tears to top front edge, top of spine fold, & rear (mid)spine fold; slight rubbing to spine ends w/ nick at the head; inside dj has minor spine stain (inconspicuous on front) & light-pink bleeding to back bottom edge (visible on lower back of dj); w/ all faults, still a presentable example of the dj (from the outside), the 1st U.S. printing of Lessing's first book being truly scarce.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very good plus copy with a small bump to one corner in a Very Good plus, unclipped dust jacket with light soiling to rear panel and modest edgewear to extremities. Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion.

hardcover. First American Edition. Review Copy, with slip laid in, of the first book by this Nobel Prize winner. The bright yellow cloth has a little soiling to the spine and a very slightly bumped corner. The dustwrapper has a small hole on the back edge of the spine, a small stain on the somewhat soiled rear cover, and a tiny closed tear on the bright front panel. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 9s.6d INTACT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 x 5 INCHES WITH 256 PAGES. VERY MINOR CHIPS TO JACKET AT TOP OF SPINE, SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH SPINE & EDGES OF CLOTH BOARDS, MINOR FOXING TO FRONT ENDPAPER WITH SEVERAL NUMBERS WRITTEN IN PEN TO REAR BLANK ENDPAPER. OVERALL A NICE COPY IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

First edition, first printing of the Nobel winning author's first novel. Red cloth with evidence of a liquid spillage to the spine and boards. This does not appear to have affected the inside of the book. The dustjacket is present, but is price clipped and suffers from some chipping to the top edge and head of spine.