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.....
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.....
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: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. Gilt cloth. Bookplate scar on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, without the uncommon dust jacket. First edition. Essays concerning Jonson, Hazlitt, Stevenson, Butler, and Conrad, among others. According to Woolmer, one of 1520 copies printed, of which 350 copies were later.....
New York / London: Crosby Gaige / Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Black cloth spine, stamped in gilt, floral decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait and five full-page plates. Signed by Strachey on the verso of of the first tipped-in flyleaf, as was the convention. Bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury.....