Murdoch Dame Iris (19 results)
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof copy. Wrappers. Spine and covers slightly creased, a few early page corners turned down.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1987, this is a second impression of later the same year. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine sunned, corners slightly bruised. Not price clipped (£11.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and…square, overall a vg+ copy. 601pp. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women, friends since university days, have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long resting ghosts of the past come careering back into the present. Jacket by Tom Phillips (illustrator).
Published by 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, 1990
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A single sheet folded once with a single sheet facsimile manuscript page from a work in progress inserted. Book.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely white jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight overall creasing and browning, price clipped, small gift inscription to top ffep, internally clean…, tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 328pp. Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only consolations after all. The neighbour, Blaise Gavender, is an amateur psychotherapist who has seen through himself. Has Blaise the courage to change his life and become an honest man? What is honesty in any case? Blaise's wife Harriet lives for love, love of her husband, love of her son. She if fond of Monty too. Emily McHugh is quite another matter. She too lives for love, for love and justice and revenge, aided and incited by her ambiguous friend Constance Pinn. Emily's son Luca, a very disturbed child, becomes the subject of a tug of war between two possessive women. Edgar Demornay, a distinguished scholar, also blunders into the fray, he adores Monty and falls in love with Monty's women. A deed of violence finally solves many problems. This is a story of different loves and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites, the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro. Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (1919-99), was an Irish / British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. A classic, in John Sutcliffe's decorative jacket. Jacket by John Sutcliffe (illustrator).
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 225 numbered copies, produced by Vivian Ridler at the Perpetua Press. A rediscovery of one of Iris Murdoch's earliest academic appearances in print - a lecture to the Oxford University Socratic Club printed in The Socratic, 1952, antedating by a year her firs…t book, Sartre. "What answer does existentialism offer? It offers no answer. Its concept of value is problematic, a question mark. But it is an expression of a passionate and sincere desire to keep to the middle way, to preserve the values of an innocent and vital individualism in a world which seems to menace them from both sides." Dedicated to Stella Aldwinckle. Robin Waterfield and Iris Murdoch had known each other since the Forties; she had a lasting fondness for his friend Tambimuttu. One of Waterfield's final clutch of published poems, "Iris" in John Doe's Last Plea (1999), is addressed to his old friend: "Dear Iris, / you have shed at last / all the encumbering weight / of acting as a grown-up should; / a task you never quite accomplished, / but blessedly remain'd / always the sharp observant child . . .".
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Pages starting to embrown from the edge, (Tom Phillips) dustwrapper slightly nicked at foot of spine. Signed by the author on the title-page and inscribed by her to Paul Levy and Penelope Marcus, "Paul & Penny with much love Iris". Dedicated to Audhild and Borys… Villers. "It's difficult to remember when I first met Iris and John," Paul Levy has written, "- in my experience, they were inseparable. I am certain we met in the late summer of 1968 at the Oxford house in Charlbury Road of Lord and Lady David Cecil - though it's just possible that we had met earlier, in 1963, with a gaggle of Oxford philosophers at a party at Edith Grove, World's End, in Chelsea." Levy, a consistent friend of both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, would write the novelist's obituary for The Independent in February 1999. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper (by Will Carter) very slightly faded at spine. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "with my very best wishes Iris Murdoch Sept 15 1980". Dedicated to Natasha and Stephen Spender. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in 1968, this is a fourth impression of 1969. SIGNED BY IRIS MURDOCH, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON FFEP, under blue stamp 'Signed for an member of the New Fiction Society' with the Society's logo. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of…jacket and spine, slight yellowing to extremities of largely white jacket, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (30s), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 350pp. A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable, prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate. Solicitor John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to Gray's Dorset home everything becomes even more mysterious and nothing is quite as it seems. Murdoch's eleventh novel, shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize, very scarce signed. Jacket by John Ward (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dustwrapper slightly faded at spine. Reprint (first published 1977), inscribed by the author to Paul Levy, Penelope Marcus and Tatyana Levy, "Paul Penny and Tanya with much love from Iris"; signed by her additionally on the title-page. Dedicated to John Bayley. "It's difficu…lt to remember when I first met Iris and John," Paul Levy has written, "- in my experience, they were inseparable. I am certain we met in the late summer of 1968 at the Oxford house in Charlbury Road of Lord and Lady David Cecil - though it's just possible that we had met earlier, in 1963, with a gaggle of Oxford philosophers at a party at Edith Grove, World's End, in Chelsea." Levy, a consistent friend of both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, would write the novelist's obituary for The Independent in February 1999. The Levys' daughter Tatyana was born in 1981; Iris Murdoch was her "atheist godmother".
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Slight crease in spine, otherwise a nice copy in dustwrapper (by Christopher Cornford). Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Paul Levy, "Paul with affectionate wishes Iris". Dedicated to Ernesto de Marchi. "It's difficult to remember when I first met Iri…s and John," Paul Levy has written, "- in my experience, they were inseparable. I am certain we met in the late summer of 1968 at the Oxford house in Charlbury Road of Lord and Lady David Cecil - though it's just possible that we had met earlier, in 1963, with a gaggle of Oxford philosophers at a party at Edith Grove, World's End, in Chelsea." Levy, a consistent friend of both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, would write the novelist's obituary for The Independent in February 1999. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Top edge faintly spotted, dustwrapper (by John Sergeant) slightly nicked at lower flap, but a very nice copy. Signed by the author on the title-page in red and inscribed to Paul Levy and Penelope Marcus, "for Paul & Penny with my very good wishes & love from Iris". Dedicated to [Geor…g] Kreisel. "It's difficult to remember when I first met Iris and [her husband] John," Paul Levy has written, "- in my experience, they were inseparable. I am certain we met in the late summer of 1968 at the Oxford house in Charlbury Road of Lord and Lady David Cecil - though it's just possible that we had met earlier, in 1963, with a gaggle of Oxford philosophers at a party at Edith Grove, World's End, in Chelsea." Levy, a consistent friend of both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, would write the novelist's obituary for The Independent in February 1999.
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Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1966
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Top edge a little spotted, dustwrapper (by John Craxton) price-clipped (with £1.50 price-label added), slightly marked and nicked, and with a short tear at the top of the lower cover panel. Signed by the author on the title-page in red and inscribed dashingly to… the writer Paul Levy and his wife Penelope Marcus, "for Paul & Penny with love & good wines Iris Dec 1975". Dedicated to Eduard Fraenkel. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1965
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper (by Margaret Benyon) price-clipped (with £1.75 price-label added), slightly darkened at spine and a little frayed at the head. Signed by the author on the title-page in red and inscribed to the writer Paul Levy and his wife Penelope Marcus, "Paul & P…enny with love Iris". Dedicated to Philippa Foot. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1954
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Spine faded, covers slightly marked, some spotting of front free endpaper, prelims and edges. Second impression, from the month after publication, priced in pencil on the front free endpaper by the author's friend and sometime publisher, the antiquarian bookseller Robin Waterfield, "1st ed £1", a…nd with the author's flamboyant inscription on the title-page, "Paul and Penny Levy with my love Iris Murdoch", and, on the opposite page, "on Paul's [37th] birthday 26 Feb 1978". "It's difficult to remember when I first met Iris and John," Paul Levy has written, "- in my experience, they were inseparable. I am certain we met in the late summer of 1968 at the Oxford house in Charlbury Road of Lord and Lady David Cecil - though it's just possible that we had met earlier, in 1963, with a gaggle of Oxford philosophers at a party at Edith Grove, World's End, in Chelsea." Levy, a consistent friend of both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, would write the novelist's obituary for The Independent in February 1999. Under the Net was her first published novel. "Set in the intellectual demi-monde of London, where struggling writers may rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers, this is the happy-go-lucky story of Jake Donoghue. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame Anna, he is led into a series of fantastic adventures: he takes part in a nocturnal pub-crawl round the City of London; helps a rich eccentric to escape from hospital and kidnaps an intelligent, if somewhat passé film-star dog" (publisher's blurb). Dedicated to Raymond Queneau. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Add to basketSee her entry, and his, in the Oxford DNB. On the reverse of a colour postcard of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford from the Old Bodleian. In fair condition, lightly aged and with slight creasing to one corner and at the head (not affecting text). To the right, in the section reserved for the address, she writes: 'Hardy / with all…very / best wishes & love / from / Iris !'. Beneath this is a pencil note identifying Amies as the recipient. At top left, in another hand (her husband John Bayley's?) is written 'Born before all time: / a dispute over Christ's origin / Karl Joseph Kuschel'. Kuschel's book was published in 1992. See IMage.
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Add to basketKleines Blatt (Visitformat) mit eigenhändiger Notiz, Unterschrift signiert Sorry no photos, best wishes and to your book IRIS MUDOCH (dito zum gleichen Preis : Bildpostkarte von Oxford, in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Ort signiert St. Anne s College Oxford).
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Add to basketFarbige Fotoporträtpostkarte (nach einem Gemälde von Tom Philips), rückseitig in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Datum, Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : Zeitungsartikel zu ihrem Tod.
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Add to basketTHE NICE AND THE GOOD Chatto & Windus, London 1969, 350 SS. gebunden mit Schutzumschlag - eigenhändig signiert unter Stempel Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society.
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Two autograph letters signed to "Dear Mr Owen": 4pp. 8vo, Steeple Aston, [11 August18 September 1972]. "I was touched and moved to hear of your friend Matthew Malowa and I will certainly write to him. What courage & spirit he is showing in these terrible circumstances . . ." Her second letter re…ports that she has received "a very good reply from him" and that he hopes to hear from Owen and from Anne Tibble. "Also that something he said in his last letter to you was from fear of being indicted under some 'prison offences' rule. He was to stand some sort of 'trial' on August 30." Anne Tibble, co-editor and co-biographer of John Clare, recalls the sequence of events in her 1979 diary/memoir Alone: "A letter from Matthew Malowa. This man is a Zimbabwean-born journalist, picked up on the Zambian border some five years ago - for what crime? He is in Salisbury gaol under the Smith regime, without charge or trial. He wrote to me after the publication of my African-English Literature [African-English Literature: a short survey and anthology, 1965]." She campaigned with Amnesty for his release. "I do not know how to find most of the addresses he asks for, but I give him Iris Murdoch's, Amnesty International's London one and Evan Owen's. These write kindly letters to him which can do no harm whatever." Matthew Malowa was imprisoned in 1964 at the same time as Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa. Tibble asks, "for what crime?" He was accused of blowing up a Rhodesian steam locomotive at Fort Victoria ("Neither terrorist nor hijacker," acknowledges Tibble, "this journalist is certainly what he himself would call a freedom fighter"), and history would place him at the centre of Mnangagwa's Crocodile Gang. After seven years in HM Remand Prison, Salisbury, he was repatriated, courtesy of Amnesty, to Zambia, where, Tibble records, he went into business with his brother running a garage. "He had become addicted to alcohol. From Zambia's independence celebrations he was returning home drunk, crashed his car and killed himself.". Inscribed by Author(s).
