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Iris, A Memoir of Iris Murdoch.
by John Bayley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0715628488
- ISBN 13
- 9780715628485
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "WITH CUTTINGS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1999 * Publisher: Duckworth.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing Iris Murdoch. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.95. Slight shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. (now in clear un-attached archival jacket). VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners hand written name and address to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Two x 8pp blocks of b/w photos within text. * Pages: 189 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: This is a memoir, not a biography, with obvious resonance. John Bayley, former Professor of English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author, have been married for more than 45 years. She has shown the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's Disease for the last four years. The words quoted above were not, needless to say, his. He chronicles a shared experience that can no longer be shared except with those outside of it, and as such is vital for him as he copes, rather than grieves. He purposefully blurs the boundaries of past and present as he describes the marriage of two brilliant intellectuals, determinedly unworldly and collegiate, mixing wine and water (they are serial dippers) throughout Europe as they serenely move "closer and closer apart"* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./7th. with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Minor dust jacket wear. (now in clear un-attached protective film cover).*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10449
- Title
- Iris, A Memoir of Iris Murdoch.
- Author
- John Bayley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 7th. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0715628488
- ISBN 13
- 9780715628485
- Publisher
- Duckworth.
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 193
- Keywords
- Memoir, Biographical Sketch.
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