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Iris Murdoch | First Editions
1919 - 1999
See below our stock of Iris Murdoch First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The Book and The Brotherhood.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1987. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 601 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Tom Phillips. Textblock toned (as usual) jacket price-clipped. Near fine. The lives of a group of Oxford intellectuals begin to disintegrate..... More
The Good Apprentice.
London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1985. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6]; 522. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Tom Phillips, with printed price of £9.95 net. Signed by the author to the title page. Textblock rather heavily toned/browned as..... More
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine.
London: Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1974. [Modern literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.328: Publisher's green cloth boards and pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Sutcliffe, priced at £2.50. A clean, near fine copy. More
The Sandcastle.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1957. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley, priced at 15s. Discreet single name to flyleaf, bookstore label to pastedown, some dustiness and toning to both..... More
A Severed Head.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1961. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.252. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock, priced at 18s. No inscriptions. Book is a little bumped and handled. Very good, in a similar jacket with a few..... More
The Unicorn.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 319; [1], blank. Sage green hardcovers with gilt titles to spine, top edge coloured blue, in pictorial dust-jacket by Christopher Cornford priced at 21s. Book is near fine; jacket very good, with a few chips and..... More
An Unofficial Rose.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.348; [4], blank. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by T. Ritchie. Discreet owner's name to flyleaf, some edge spotting, price-clipped jacket lightly used, toned to spine. Very good. A tragi-comedy of..... More
An Unofficial Rose.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.348; [4], blank. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by T. Ritchie. Single ink name to flyleaf, extremities sunned, jacket spine is toned else fine. Overall a very good copy. A tragi-comedy..... More
Conviction.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1958. [Socialist essays] FIRST EDITION, containing an early article by Iris Murdoch. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.237 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow and black dust-jacket, priced at 18s. Light handling, with some light rubbing and a few nicks to..... More
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