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A FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Used
- Condition
- Fine./Fine.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. Green gilt cloth boards. Former owner's neat signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a highly amusing unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by John Sergeant.
First edition. The usual Murdoch cohort of sexually and intellectually confused friends and relations do much to muddle their own and everyone else's lives.
First edition. The usual Murdoch cohort of sexually and intellectually confused friends and relations do much to muddle their own and everyone else's lives.
Synopsis
A Fairly Honourable Defeat is a novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch.
Reviews
On Aug 11 2005, Raabe said:
An extremely entertaining fiction full of easy philosophies and quirky characters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 329
- Title
- A FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT
- Author
- MURDOCH, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
Second Wind Books LLC
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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.
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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