THE NICE AND THE GOOD
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Used
- first
- Condition
- About fine./Good.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. About fine./Good.. Octavo. Brown gilt cloth. Former owner's neat signature and date on front free endsheet, else about fine, in a provocative unclipped dust jacket designed by John Ward that has a rumple along the top edge and a small closed tear.
First edition. "Murdoch's eleventh novel -- her longest and most richly peopled -- is a domestic comedy revolving around a happily married couple ... " -- from the book flap. If you have read Murdoch you won't be surprised that flying saucers, violent death involving blackmail and suspected espionage, a disused crypt under Whitehall used for the Black Arts, people trapped in a cave with the tide coming in, etc., are the makings of a domestic comedy.
First edition. "Murdoch's eleventh novel -- her longest and most richly peopled -- is a domestic comedy revolving around a happily married couple ... " -- from the book flap. If you have read Murdoch you won't be surprised that flying saucers, violent death involving blackmail and suspected espionage, a disused crypt under Whitehall used for the Black Arts, people trapped in a cave with the tide coming in, etc., are the makings of a domestic comedy.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 330
- Title
- THE NICE AND THE GOOD
- Author
- MURDOCH, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - About fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
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