Item 327AN ACCIDENTAL MAN.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Octavo. Plum gilt cloth boards. First edition. Fine, in a fine pictorially literal dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.
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Item 325THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD.
London: Chatto & Windus, [1987]. Octavo. Pale grey gilt cloth. About fine, in a fine highly pictorial, unclipped dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose remarkable portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery. First edition, first impression. Murdoch's twenty-third novel, and considered to be one.....
Item 329A FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Octavo. Green gilt cloth boards. Former owner's neat signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a highly amusing unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sergeant. First edition. The usual Murdoch cohort of sexually and intellectually confused friends and relations do much.....
Item 322THE GOOD APPRENTICE.
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, [1985]. Teal blue gilt cloth. First edition. Murdoch's twenty-second novel. Fine, in a fine dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips, who painted the portrait of Murdoch hanging in the National Portrait Gallery.
Item 332THE ITALIAN GIRL.
New York: Avon Books, [1965]. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps toned, spine a slight bit cocked and one light vertical crease, textblock toned, else a good copy. First trade paperback edition. "A gothic tale, told with intelligence and wit by one of England's major contemporary novelists, for broadminded and compassionate readers...
Item 324THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET.
London: Chatto & Windus, [1989]. Thick octavo. Emerald green gilt cloth. First edition. Signed by author on half-title. Some foxing to top edge, else about fine in a fine highly pictorial dust jacket designed by Tom Phillips whose portrait of Dame Jean Iris Murdoch hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery.....
Item 330THE NICE AND THE GOOD.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. Octavo. Brown gilt cloth. Former owner's neat signature and date on front free endsheet, else about fine, in a provocative unclipped dust jacket designed by John Ward that has a rumple along the top edge and a small closed tear. First edition. "Murdoch's eleventh novel.....
Item 323NUNS AND SOLDIERS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1980. Pale blue gilt boards. Fine, in a fine dust jacket printed in red and black. First edition. Twenty-first novel by the prolific Oxford don who nonchalantly starts this novel that is sometimes referred to as a romance for highbrows, with, "'Wittgenstein -- ' 'Yes?' said.....
Item 326THE SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE MACHINE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Octavo. Spring green gilt cloth. First edition, first impression. Fine, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sutcliffe.
Item 328A WORD CHILD.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. Octavo. Orange gilt boards. First edition. Pictorial jacket design by Christopher Cornford. About fine but for being cased upside down in its binding (not seen any others listed as such), in very good or better unclipped dust jacket.
Item 331IRIS MURDOCH FOR BEGINNERS.
[New York: Writers and Readers, 2001]. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by [Silvina] Piero. Near fine. First edition. A "documentary comic book" that illustrates and illuminates everything you need to know about Iris Murdoch and her work so that you can be stunningly erudite at any Oxbridge cocktail party you may find.....
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