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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0701115343
- ISBN 13
- 9780701115340
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1970-01-01. 1st Edn. 1st Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/F/VG++. Box 91 HARDBACK ""FIRST EDITION,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1970.* Pub: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Light green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine & none to face. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket by John Sergeant, showing a nude woman standing in front of a rock. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of 35s. (£1.75p). Black titles to face & somewhat faded spine. Some spotting to flap folds, slight age marks. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright text block, owner's dated name (1970) to f.f.e.p. with little reading wear, no marks to text. Considerable age spotting & toning to edges especially top & fore-edge. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 402 pp. text. iv pp. blank at rear.* Description: Morgan flees from America and her love affair with the brilliant but peculiar Julius, back to London and the security of her happily married elder sister, Hilda, who has always been her mentor and protector. In London there is also, however, Morgan's estranged hisband Tallis, Hilda's drop-out son Peter, and not least Hilda's husband Rupert and his homosexual younger brother Simon, all variously bent upon helping ""poor"" Morgan to ""pick up the pieces."" The scene is set for a good deal of chaos. And by now, Julius has arrived too !! * A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st./1st. thus with some age and wear reducing it to VG. In a VG protected wrapper.*
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
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9908
- Title
- A Fairly Honourable Defeat
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG++
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0701115343
- ISBN 13
- 9780701115340
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970-01-01
- Pages
- 406
- X weight
- g
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