Flight From the Enchanter
by Murdoch, Iris
IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford, where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net, and went on to write twenty-six novels, including the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978). Other literary awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) and Existentialists and Mystics (1997). She died in February 1999.
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Chatto and Windus, London 1956. First edition. DW. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY, "For Angharad with love and best wishes from Iris Murdoch." With a flourish and star. Also one sided hand-written letter loosely inserted in envelope addressed by Murdoch. Addressed in her own hand, "Dear Angharad, so sorry - very many people send me books for autograph. Alas I… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chatto and Windus, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1956. A very good+ (or better) book with some spotting to the page edges and prelims. Some shadowing to the spine. Previous owner's bookplate. In a very good+ unclipped wrapper with just a little wear to the head of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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First American edition of Murdoch's rather rare second book.. Cover has a missing section along top and shelf-wear along top and bottom of spine and shadowing from on inside covers which appear to be from the dj flaps which apparently glued to the inside covers originally. There is also a Brentano;s stamp and some pencil ,marks on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The book's cover shows chips and rubs at the edges and corners. The spine is uncreased. Pages are tight, intact and unmarked, with a couple of small spots of discoloration. To quote from a review, "Readers who can shiver and laugh at the same time will thoroughly enjoy the batlike swoops in and out of this modern… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight from the Enchanter
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small spot on front board else very near fine in about very good dustwrapper designed by Edward Bawden with shallow chipping on the spine ends, a bit of toning at the spine, and light offsetting on the front flap from a clipping. Item Price
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 316pp. Octavo in original brown cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Cloth, dust jacket and text block are all in amazing condition adding to scarcity of this title. Some faint offsetting to halftitle from something previously stored in book (likely a newspaper clipping) Iris Murdoch's 2nd… Read more about this item Item Price
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FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. A near fine (or better) copy in like D/W with just a hint of toning to the white portions of the spne and a touch of minor shelf wear at the head of the spine. Very scarce in this… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight from the Enchanter (Signed & Inscribed Presentation Copy)
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- 1960
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1960. 1st Edition 3rd Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed, 3rd printing. 8vo. 316pp. Cinnamon-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, mildest of rubbing at corners; hint of aging to pages. In a lovely, generally bright unclipped (15s) dust jacket by Edward… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight from the Enchanter
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New York: The Viking Press, 1956. Solid copy of first printing of author's second book. Unmarked with good hinge but slight lean and crease to spine Price intact jacket has that same crease on spine and light paper loss at edges. A hard book to find in first. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight From the Enchanter
by Iris Murdoch
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Penguin, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. Reprinted. 287 pages. Pictorial paper cover with orange rim. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking and mild tanning. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Reading creases and rolling to spine. Slight curl to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight from the Enchanter
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. pp. 316. 8vo. Some sunning to binding (in keeping with jacket chips), corners bumped, ink name to front free endpaper, two instances of offsetting (as from a now-removed bookmark), else clean and unmarked internally. The jacket was in pieces and a former owner saw fit to repair it with tape. The front and… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER ( SIGNED )
by Murdoch, Iris
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London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Bound in the publishers original brown cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine. This is the first impression of the first edition of Iris Murdoch's second novel. This copy has been signed and dated by Iris Murdoch by way of a small white card loosely laid in and hence is scarce thus.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight From the Enchanter
by Iris Murdoch
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Penguin Books Ltd., 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. 1962. Reprinted. 287 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Slight cracking to front hinge. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Small tear to edge of last page. Paper cover has mild edge wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight From The Enchanter
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Penguin Books, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. Reprinted. 287 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as moderate tanning, tape remnants and occasional foxing. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Reading creases to spine. Curling to corners. Price sticker… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight from the Enchanter
by Iris Murdoch
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- 1969
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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Penguin Books Ltd., 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. Reprinted. 287 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning. Item Price
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The Flight From the Enchanter
by Iris Murdoch
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Penguin, 1962. Paperback. Acceptable. 1962. Reprint. 287 pages. Illustrated paperback. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some pages are dog-earred. Covers have moderate tanning with creasing and reading lines. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean. Item Price
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Flight from the Enchanter
by Murdoch, Iris
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The Flight from the Enchanter
by Murdoch, Iris
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Leicester, GBR
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London: Penguin, 1962. First Edition. Signed by Author. First UK Paperback Edition. A VG copy. Signed and inscribed by the Author to the title page: "Chantal and Brian/ for your collection/ Iris Murdoch". Further details can be provided upon request as to the identity of the recipients of this book. This book is part of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flight From the Enchanter
by Murdoch, Iris
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- 2000
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London : Vintage Classics, 2000. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. paperback, 287 pages, pages browned otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 83.
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The Flight from the Enchanter
by Iris Murdoch
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VINTAGE (RAND). Used - Good. 2000. Paperback. Good. Item Price
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