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The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good

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The Nice and the Good

by Murdoch, Iris

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  • Hardcover
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London: Chatto & Windus 1968. 8vo. First edition. 350 pp. Brown hardback, top edge stained terracotta. Illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Clean boards. Jacket a little rubbed to edges and extremities. Internally clean, bright. A domestic comedy centring a married couple and their friends in Dorset. Deals with love in two ways, the impersonal and the gratifying - the nice and the good. Jacket design by John Ward. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1968.

Synopsis

IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St. Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in 1999.

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Bookseller
Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
71704
Title
The Nice and the Good
Author
Murdoch, Iris
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Chatto & Windus 1968
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1968
Size
8vo.
Keywords
Dorset,Iris Murdoch
Bookseller catalogs
Literature; Modern First Editions;

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