THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER ( SIGNED )
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Bound in the publishers original brown cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine. This is the first impression of the first edition of Iris Murdoch's second novel. This copy has been signed and dated by Iris Murdoch by way of a small white card loosely laid in and hence is scarce thus. Iris Murdoch, May 10, 1974. All pages are present and correct and tightly bound with no inscriptions. Book sits solid and square with all corners sharp. A very good copy. Housed in the famous Edward Bawden dustwrapper with publishers printed price intact on front inside flap. Rubbed and chipped to the edges but nontheless a presentable example of the iconic dustwrapper. Protected in a removable archival booksleeve to preserve its condition. A nice example of the author's second novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Very Good/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION.
Synopsis
IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford, where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net, and went on to write twenty-six novels, including the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978). Other literary awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) and Existentialists and Mystics (1997). She died in February 1999.
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- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001026
- Title
- THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER ( SIGNED )
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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