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A WORD CHILD
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Used
- first
- Condition
- About fine./Very good.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. About fine./Very good.. Octavo. Orange gilt boards. First edition. Pictorial jacket design by Christopher Cornford. About fine but for being cased upside down in its binding (not seen any others listed as such), in very good or better unclipped dust jacket.
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 February 1999.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 328
- Title
- A WORD CHILD
- Author
- MURDOCH, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - About fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
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New Haven, Connecticut
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.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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...
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