HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Light grey cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal age and marks. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a target with script in the foreground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £11.95. White titles to face & to somewhat faded spine. No other visible faults. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners address inscription to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks and considerable age darkening to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 601 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Many years ago Gererd Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions changed. Why should we go on supporting a book we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history? Jenkin Riderhood suggests.* A NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st./1st with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Some wear and age darkening reducing it to VG+.*

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A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9736
Title: The Book and The Brotherhood
Author: Murdoch., Iris
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG++/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0701132515
ISBN 13: 9780701132514
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication: London UK. 601
Date Published: 1987-09-10

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