THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- About fine./Fine.
- Seller
-
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. About fine./Fine.. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 324
- Title
- THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET
- Author
- MURDOCH, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - About fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
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About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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