Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. xx + 666 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, with library class no. on spine. Minor wear to extremities, some browning of edges and slight traces of removal of labels from endpapers; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of photographic plates and by author's sketches within letters. Decorated by publisher's devices on half title and verso of title page. First edition, first printing of a selection of the novelist, Iris Murdoch's 'most interesting and important letters.' Edited by Avril Horner, Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University, London and Anne Rowe (b.1952), Senior Lecturer at Kingston and writer on Iris Murdoch.