[MODERN LITERATURE]. LESSING, DORIS. The Memoirs of a Survivor. London, [1974]. SIGNED by Lessing on the half-title -- LESSING. The Summer Before the Dark. London, [1973] -- LESSING. Briefing for a Descent into Hell. London, [1971] -- WOLFE, TOM. THe Bonfire of the Vanities. New York, [1987] -- WOLFE. The Purple Decades. New York, [1982]. ADVANCE PROOF IN WRAPPERS -- DONLEAVY, J. P. A Fairy Tale of New York. New York, [1973] -- DEIGHTON, LEN. An Expensive Place to Die. London, [1967]. Lacking dust jacket -- AMIS, KINGSLEY. Difficulties with Girls. London, [1988] -- BALLARD, J. G. High-Rise. New York, [1975]. First American edition -- SPARK, MURIEL. The Mandelbaum Gate. New York, 1965 -- SPARK. Voices at Play. London, 1961 -- SPARK. Not to Disburb. [London, 1971]. ADVANCE PROOF IN WRAPPERS -- SPARK. The Public Image. London, 1968 -- SPARK. The Hothouse by the East River. New York, [1973]. First American edition -- SPARK. The Abbess of Crewe. London, [1974] -- SPARK. John Masefield. [London, 1953] -- ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four. [London, 1954]. Wrappers. First paperback edition. Together 17 volumes, various 8vo, sizes, original bindings (mostly cloth, unless noted otherwise); dust jackets when issued (unless noted otherwise), condition very good. All FIRST EDITIONS unless noted otherwise. (17)