Nuns and Soldiers
by MURDOCH, Iris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670518263
- ISBN 13
- 9780670518265
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0670518263 . A first American edition of the 20th novel by Iris Murdoch. The story is centered around her Gertrude Openshaw character, who loses her husband to cancer and finds herself in a romance with a younger man. The prolific Ms. Murdoch was a professor of philosophy at Oxford and wrote many highly-praised novels. --- In tan paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket with Tom Blau photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with mild spine sunning, a tear to rear top edge and minor curling to edges, else bright, intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 505 pages .
Synopsis
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She is the author of 26 novels and several works of philosophy. She died in 1999.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84916
- Title
- Nuns and Soldiers
- Author
- MURDOCH, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670518263
- ISBN 13
- 9780670518265
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0670518263
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