Summer Before Dark by Doris Lessing, Signed (12 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in a very good unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by Doris Lessing on the title page--signature only. The black decorated cloth boards show light toning and there is a previous owner's name stamp on the front pastedown behind the flap. Dustjacket is not price clipped and shows only slight sun fading and a tiny bit of edgewear--but not much to speak of. Lessing's story of one woman's coming to grips with aging and a changing life she is not sure how to handle. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, 273 pages. In Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$6.95". Boards in black cloth; slight wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine with mild buckle to spine. Text block has red tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf, erasure on front pastedown, small stain to rear flyleaf. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400812. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Inscribed by the Nobel Prize winning author. Minor stain to lower pages edges at the beginning. DJ a bit wrinkled and worn.

Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. Small Octavo, 241 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with gilt and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mlyar covering, price is uncut "£1.95 net", has has mild shelving wear, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, denting along the front fore edge, and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages, mild wear along the edges, mild age-toning along the edges, and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Doris Lessing on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391301. Special Collections.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First US edition, first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the half-title page. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering, lavender topstain. Beginning toning on board edge cloth especially at the spine ends, minimal rubbing on cloth. Dustjacket with beginning toning on upper sections of white background of both panels, shallow edge creases. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Lessing's fifth novel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Doris Lessing to the title page. A fine copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a near fine, unclipped dustjacket. (small nick with crease to lower corner) All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery. Signed by Author(s).

First edition / First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. paper-covered boards. 241 pages. Fine in fine dust jacket. Faint line (pencil mark?) to the painted top edge of the text near the spine. Doris Lessing was the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hardcovers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Lessing on the title page. Beginning page toning; dustjacket with very faint beginning toning on the flaps' topedges. Bright copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Lessing's fifth novel. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1973. First American Edition. Autographed by Lessing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author.

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, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1ST PRINTING. HANDSOME COPY. Signed by Author.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's grey boards, titles to spine gilt, grey topstain, cream endpapers, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the price-clipped dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'Clive Sinclair Sincerely Doris Lessing 23rd May 1980'. Clive Sinclair was an author and fellow winner of the Somerset Maugham Award which Lessing had won some two decades earlier.