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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX September 1930 No. 1. [lvi,216,lxiv pp.]Â 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.....
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: 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...
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.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1946. First edition. Gilt cloth. Illustrations by Ian Hugo. Private ownership stamp on pastedown, else a very good copy in dust jacket with minor darkening and small nick to rear panel. First edition, first printing. Author's first full-length novel, the first in what.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1948. First edition. Gilt cloth. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate over an earlier ink name on endsheet, else fine in good, somewhat edgeworn dust jacket with chip at crown of spine. First edition thus, including two stories for the first time in book form.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First edition. Yellow cloth. First edition. Slight foxing to endsheets at gutters, else a very good copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Harry Ford.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd:, [1948]. First edition. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels. First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse.....
London: Faber & Faber, [1946]. First edition. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Hunting love and the elusive fascist in post-war France. A near fine copy in a very good, lightly nicked and foxed typographic dust jacket.
New York: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, [1949]. First edition. Gilt green cloth. Pale stain at fore-edge, edges lightly rubbed, else very good, in a full-color pictorial dust jacket by Adolf Dehn, with a tanned spine and a few nicks. First edition. Men training in the mountains of Colorado as members of the.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1948]. First edition. Original orange cloth, titles in black, signature block to front board in black. Pastedowns slightly darkened at gutters, lower edges a trifle shelf-worn, else a very good copy in a lightly edgeworn, hand-soiled pictorial dust jacket. First edition. A topic Boyle often.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1938]. First edition. Cloth. Discreet bookseller's label tipped in, cloth faded at the edges and head and toe of spine, but a good copy in a very worn, soiled and chipped dust jacket. First edition. A departure for Boyle, she serves up a kind.....
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. Woodcuts by the Author. First edition. Black cloth, decorated boards. Printed and decorated paper spine label. Black endsheets. 139 full-page woodcuts by Ward printed in black, plus title-page, dedication-page vignettes, and five chapter headings - all printed on recto only. Boards soiled.....