London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition. Cloth and patterned paper boards, gilt spine. Title page printed in red and black. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Introduction by Shane Leslie. First English translation from the French by H. B. V. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, offsetting to front and rear.....
New York: Grolier Club, 2004. Octavo. Decorated green & yellow wave pattern. Black and white illustrations. Bookplate tipped onto verso of front panel. 54pp. Fine.First edition, limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. From the collection of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, Bloomsbury collector, William Beekman. As.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved frontispiece, with printed tissue guard, and vignettes by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. About fine but for the presence of the book labels of two noted book collectors: Samuel Garcia Asher.....
Pasadena: by the Author, [1924]. Art Young. Tan pictorial wrappers. Frontispiece, cover, and all illustrations by Art Young. Wraps darkened, spine ends worn, else a very good copy.First edition, January, 1924, wrapper issue 5000 copies. A serious discussion regarding propaganda in schools, the banning of books and magazines, and the.....
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Iowa City, IA / Shallotte, NC: Making Waves Press, 2022. First edition. Perfect bound, pictorial wrappers. Fully illustrated in pictorial assemblages by the author. Fine, as new.First edition. "The Value of Laughter" by Virginia Stephen (Woolf) was originally published on 16 August 1905 in The Guardian. Leslie Kathleen Hankins is.....
Iowa City, IA / Shallotte, NC: Making Waves Press, 2021. First edition. Oblong. Perfect bound, pictorial wrappers in the colors violet, white, & green in homage to the Suffragist Movement. Fully illustrated in pictorial assemblages by the author. Fine, as new.First edition. Centenary cinematic edition. "Virginia Woolf's comic 'counterblast' takes.....
London: The Fleuron Limited, [1927]. Original black and white patterned paper boards. Seventeen black and white plates of oil paintings executed by Grant between 1921 and 1926.; all plates printed on recto at the Curwen Press. Covers with light marking, shelf wear, tips modestly rubbed, book label of noted collector.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX September 1930 No. 1. [lvi,216,lxiv pp.] Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, short split to upper wrapper at spine edge, tape residue to top edge of the upper wrapper and similarly to the top edge.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia.....
London: The Hogarth Press, Red cloth, stamped in black. Foreword by Leonard Woolf. Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket. A good or better copy of the first printing of this work, now uniformly toned as both book and dust jacket was printed on highly acidic wartime paper stock. Bell jacket largely.....
[New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983]. Knight, Hilary:. White boards, printed in red & black. Illustrations by Hilary Knight, who also inscribes on the front free endpaper, "from Hilary Knight and Me, Eloise!" Lovely fold-out illustration of Eloise's elevator game in the Plaza Hotel. Scattered dust spots at top edge.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Octavo. Stripe patterned cloth boards, paper spine label. Several leaves unopened. Lovely, tiny, Texas woman-owned bookstore label affixed to the rear pastedown, trivial foxing to rear board cloth and some minor flaring of the boards - probably attributed to contraction of the glue on.....
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...
[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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Octavo. Plum gilt cloth boards. First edition. Fine, in a fine pictorially literal dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Octavo. Spring green gilt cloth. First edition, first impression. Fine, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sutcliffe.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1931]. Green gilt cloth. First edition. Bookplate removed inexpertly from front pastedown, light foxing to rear endsheets and fore-edge, front inner hinge cracked but sound; a good copy, lacking the dust jacket. This fourth novel by Sackville West won the "Femina Vie Heureuse" prize in 1931.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Printed wrappers. Heraldic drawings by Scott-Giles (though not all were printed). Title label across bottom edge, staple in upper wrapper, but a very good copy, and of particular interest to Lord Peter Wimsey devotees. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition. From the.....