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TWO BOOKS - by & about IRIS MURDOCH :
1) A WORD CHILD
by IRIS MURDOCH
Date: 1975
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 391
Bound: Hardcover
ISBN: 067078236X
SIZE: Large 8vo - 22 x 15 x 3.5
Illustrated: No
Dustjacket: Yes, unclipped
Condition:
Two tone cloth-bound hardcover with title to spine, slight rubbing to spine & corners, STRAIGHT, TIGHT & CLEAN in GOOD CONDITION, no inscriptions, in an unclipped GOOD DUSTJACKET with foxing to inside, fading to spine, a couple of tiny tears with repairs to inside & tape to top & bottom.
- 'A Word Child, a tragic and funny meditation upon the metaphysics of love and redemption, is one of Iris Murdoch's most powerful novels'.
2) THE SAINT & THE ARTISTA Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch
by PETER J. CONRADI
Foreword by John Bayley
Date: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins, London
Edition: Third Edition - 1st pub. 1986
Pages: 422
Bound: Softcover
ISBN: 0007120192
SIZE: 8vo - 20 x 13 x 3
Illustrated: No
Dustjacket: No
Condition:
Illustrated softcover with
title to spine & front cover, slight rubbing to spine & corners, STRAIGHT, TIGHT
& CLEAN in GOOD CONDITION, slight foxing to endpapers & to outside page edges, no inscriptions.
- 'This new edition, fully revised and updated, is issued to coincide with Peter Conradi's authorised biography of Iris Murdoch'.
- A valuable study. . . Conradi has a lively, curious, energetic mind and his enthusiasm for his subject is warming.'