Martha Quest by Doris Lessing: Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine/Very Good. First Edition Thus, 2nd Printing. Martha Quest was first published in 1952, then in a double volume with 'A Proper Marriage 'in 1965. Published on its own by Granada in 1977. This is the 1983 reprinting. This title is the first novel of Lessing's five-novel sequence - The Children of Violence. It traces the life of Martha Quest. 335 pp. Grey boards have green author's box and gilt text on spine. Price clipped DJ has yellowing at top edge. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet and, not infrequently, host at Harbourfront literary events, Greg Gatenby. His signature and the year of this book's acquisition are found ffep. " Greg - Doris L. October 1991." Bookseller's Inventory # 123039. Signed by Author(s).…

Broschur. Condition: Gut. auf Titel mit Datum signiert von der britischen Schriftstellerin und Nobelpreisträgerin Doris Lessing (1919-2013) , leichte Gebrauchsspuren . signed by author . Size: 8°. Vom Autor signiert. Buch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page with no other inscriptions. Both book and jacket in VG condition, slight spine slant and loss and wear to jacket. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED "To Ella and Don Who Know, with grateful affection" and SIGNED BY LESSING on the front end paper. The inscription is for Donald Ogden Stewart (screenwriter and Academy Award Winner for The Philadelphia Story) and his activist and writer wife, Ella Winter. The person to whom she inscribed the book has penciled his name above the inscription. Light edge wear to bottom spine, otherwise a bright, NEAR FINE (no bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.) copy with bright gilt on spine. The original Peter Rudland designed dust jacket has some chipping to top of spine, and light soiling to back panel, otherwise it is better than VERY GOOD+ (with the "12s 6d." price intact). A wonderful association copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First edition of the author's first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown, near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips and wear.ÂJacket design by Peter Rudland. Martha Quest, the first book in the "Children of Violence" series, follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87, she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home, as she was returning from the grocery store, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.".…

Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 319, [1]. Publishers' green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Peter Rudland. Slightly cocked, with a touch of sunning to spine tips, corners rubbed; and a barely visible bruise to top edge of upper board. Free endpapers a little toned. Dust-jacket a hint of toning to white panels, with nicks & creases to edge and some loss to spine tips and corners. A very good book in a good jacket. Signed by the author, without dedication, to half-title. A full-scale portrait of a girl from adolescence to womanhood, set in Africa where Noble Prize winning author Lessing grew up. "Martha Quest" was her second novel, and the first in the five volume semi-autobiographical series "Children of Violence".…

Hardcover. dj. First Printing. Octavo, two books containing vols. 1-4 of a five-volume series. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jackets. Spines grey and red with white and black lettering. Dust jackets protected with mylar coverings, prices uncut: "$7.50" and "$6.95." Spine of red dust jacket lightly sunned. Rears of both jackets with light plus marking; light shelf wear to head and tail of jackets spine and to jacket corners; a few instances of minor chipping to jacket edges. Creasing to rear flap of dust jacket on first book. Jackets lightly age toned. General shelf wear to head and tail of book spine and to edges and corners of boards. Age toning throughout text blocks. Both volumes signed by Lessing. CONTENTS: I: MARTHA QUEST and A PROPER MARRIAGE (605 pages), signed by Lessing on "Publisher's Note" page. II: A RIPPLE FROM THE STORM and LANDLOCKED (544 pages), signed by Lessing on title page. DL Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1391285. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed.…

First edition. Signed. First edition. Signed. In publisher's green cloth. With original dust jacket by Peter Rudland. 319, (1) pages. The first book of the series "The Children of Violent" by Doris Lessing who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Dust jacket slightly chipped at edges, torn to spine. The book in fine condition. In publisher's green cloth. With original dust jacket by Peter Rudland.…

First editions of the author's Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Martha Quest, the first book in the "Children of Violence" series, follows a young girl coming of age in British colonial South Africa just before World War II. The following books chronicle her experience as she grows through marriage and then motherhood. In 2007 Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 87, she was the oldest winner of the prize at the time. "Oh Christ!" She told reporters outside her home, as she was returning from the grocery store, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.".…