A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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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A Word Child
by Iris Murdoch
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- 1975
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Chelmsford, Essex, GBR
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First Edition, First Impression (Chatto & Windus, 1975) Small bump to spine foot, else fine. Original and unclipped dust jacket has very slight fading to spine panel with signs of trivial wear to extremities. An excellent copy. Item Price
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by Murdoch, Iris
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Chelmsford, Essex, GBR
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First US edition, first impression (The Viking Press, Inc, 1975). Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page: 'With the good wishes of Iris Murdoch'.
Quarter-bound in yellow and red cloth with lettering to spine in red and black. A very good book with some knocking to corners in a very good dust jacket with a few tears… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Word Child
by MURDOCH, Iris
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- Near Fine
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foxing on top edge else near fine in slightly toned, near fine dustwrapper. Item Price
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A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Poor
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Chatto, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. The jacket is marked and torn. Internally clean and tightly bound. One inscription and some tape burn / residue.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Chatto and Windus, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is shelf rubbed, a bit edge worn and sunned. mild tanning. light marks. well bound. good copy.[S.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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A word child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- 1st edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Galway, IRL
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in an edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper with some tearing, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 390 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects: Fiction in English. Man-woman relationships England Fiction. Accidents England Fiction. Death Fiction. Fiction 20th century. Item Price
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A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Chatto & Windus 1975, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. both book and jacket are very good+. the jacket is shelf rubbed, and slightly creased with a couple of tiny closed tears. the book has a previous owner's signature. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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- 9780701120924
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Chatto and Windus, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Rubber stamp.Old tape residue marks.Excellent binding.[R.M]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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- 9780701120924
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Johannesburg, ZAF
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Chatto and Windus, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is rubbed and marked.Old tape residue marks.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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A WORD CHILD
by Murdoch, Iris
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- 1st Edition
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- 1975
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- Hardcover
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Montreal, Quebec, CAN
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$50.00
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in orange cloth, (previous collector's small discreet printed name to the front free endpaper), gilt titles to the spine in a near fine, bright, fresh price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 391 pp. Item Price
$50.00
A Word Child
by MURDOCH, Iris
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- First Edition
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- 1975
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Orange paper-covered boards, titled in gilt, in original light mauve dust jacket; plain endpapers; [vi],391pp; publisher's ads to rear cover and jacket flap. Inscribed "Rosemary Eakins / Oxford, 1975." Straight and tight, lightly pushed at head and tail with minor crease along spine, minor discoloration to top edge,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Word Child
by MURDOCH, Iris
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1975
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670782369
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a crease on the rear flap, a sunned spine, and a couple small interior stains. Item Price
$30.00
A Word child.
by Murdoch, Iris.:
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- 9780316733168
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Lymm, Cheshire, GBR
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$8.87
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London, chatto & Windus, 1975.. 1st edition. Very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. Item Price
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A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1975
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$30.41
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London: Chatto & Windus 1975. 8vo. First edition. 391 pp. Orange hardback. Illustrated dust jacket. Light bumping to head of spine. Jacket has some light discolouration to spine and minimal rubbing to edges. A smart first edition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1975. Item Price
$30.41
A Word Child ( Proof )
by MURDOCH Iris
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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- 9780701120924
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Christchurch, Canterbury, NZL
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$21.12
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1974 proof copy but not stated, title has 1974 but imprint has c1975, tan or mustard wrappers with black titling to cover and spine, no other text, starts at half title which has small area discoloured where old price has been erased at top corner, rear wrapper light crease at top corner, 391pp, sewn collations with… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Word Child
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780701120924
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$30.00
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Jacket art by Christopher Cornford. Front endleaves with a bit of label residue and a small abrasion from label removal, spine base very gently bumped, near fine in a modestly tanned and lightly edgeworn, near fine dust jacket. Item Price
$30.00
A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1975-08-18
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670782369
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Boonsboro, Maryland, USA
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$13.67
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Viking Adult, 1975-08-18. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Rear end page excised. Item Price
$13.67
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A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Near Fine
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- 1st US Edition 1st Impression
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- 1973
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- Hardcover
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nr Canterbury, Kent, GBR
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$25.34
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New York, USA: Viking Press, 1973. 1st US Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First US edition, first printing. 392pp. Quarter bound in yellow cloth over orange, paper-covered boards, orange endpapers (boards are strong, square and clean, just a little rounded and rubbed at spine tips). Internally… Read more about this item Item Price
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A WORD CHILD
by MURDOCH, Iris
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- Used - About fine.
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- Very good.
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- 1975
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New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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$47.00
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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. Item Price
$47.00
A Word Child
by Murdoch, Iris
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- Used - Collectible - Good
- ISBN
- 9780670782369
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Frederick, Maryland, USA
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$30.17
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Viking Adult. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Owner's name on inside. (didactic fiction) Item Price
$30.17