Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Iris Murdoch. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, 1958.
Price: US$10.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958. No Edition Stated. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Front endpaper missing. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front paste down. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with minor scuffing and marking to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Iris Murdoch. THE BELL. Chatto & Windus, 1958.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Original publishers green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. First edition, published in 1958. Neat name on front endpaper with some rubbing at spine ends and slight fading at spine, otherwise near very good with clean text. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Barnabees Books, Saxmundham, United Kingdom
MURDOCH Iris. THE BELL. Chatto & Windus, 1958, 1958.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: 1st edn 3rd imp. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (lettering faded - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 319 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her neat inscription and bookstamp on front free endpaper).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Chatto & Windus Ltd, London, 1958.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards have a darkened spine with a small faint stain at the centre. There is also a little light staining in a few places on the rear panel and some bumpong to the corners. Browning to page edges with a few light marks. Browning to the endpapers but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Murdoch,Iris. The Bell.. London: Chatto & Windus,, 1958.
Price: US$43.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 319, (1)pp. Illustrated dust wrapper, designed by Charles Mozley. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine. Duat wrapper sunned, somewhat stained, chipped at spine, lower corner of front cover missing, lower corner of rear cover torn, price of front flap cut out. Upper and lower edges of spine sl.faded. Edges foxing. From front e.p.to half title page and the last page of text to rear e.p.foxing. Ink ownership notation to rear flyleaf. Pages sl.foxing. 20.5x13.8cm. [aj1406-170778]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Murdoch, Iris:. The Bell. London : Chatto & Windus and The Book Society 1958 1st edition thus, 1958.
Price: US$50.12 + shipping
Description: hard cover, dust jacket, green cloth, 320pp, 2 previous owners' stamps and name to free front endpaper and front endflap of jacket, spine of jacket is sunned,chip to tail of spine, and some light age stains, book is in very good condition for its age, with good to very good dust jacket. No ISBN. Loosely inserted is the August 1959 issue of the World Books 'Broadsheet' for Australia with an article by Iris Murdoch about her work,
Seller: Book Fossicker, Clunes, VIC, Australia
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell [Hardcover] Murdoch, Iris. Chatto & Windus, 1958.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket - Book plate to inner front cover. Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
MURDOCH, Iris. THE BELL. Chatto & Windus and The Book Society, 1958.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: Book Society version. Very good condition in very good unclipped dust jacket. The books shows signs of wear but is free from any internal markings or inscriptions. The dust jacket shows signs of wear and tear and discoloration to the spine.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$89.78 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition/First printing published by Chatto & Windus, London 1958. No marks or inscriptions. Spotting/Browning to endpages and page edges. Occasional spotting throughout. Slight waving to page block. Green cloth covers have dulled slightly with faded Gilt text. Few odd marks.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 320 pp. First state with sheets measuring 21.5 cm across. A bright, clean book with a little spine lean, and a touch of age-darkening to endpapers. Dust jacket is complete, not price-clipped, no chipping but small to tiny nicks at each corner with spine and edges age-darkened.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Chatto & Windus and The Book Society, London, England, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket including chip out of dj at bottom of spine; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Seller: Hourglass Books, vancouver, BC, Canada
Murdoch, Iris. THE BELL. Chatto & Windus, London, Edinburgh and New York, 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. Green cloth in tan, pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket, bearing the price 15s, has light edge wear, and a sunned spine. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell : First printing. Chatto & Windus, London, United Kingdom, 1958.
Price: US$115.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (15s). Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few small (approx. 5mms) tears, patchy creasing/rubbing to edges, (quite) severe foxing (including to reverse - white side), patchy browning (including to spine), creasing/rubbing/foxing to front/back inner flaps, a little creasing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, few marks, pushing/bumping to corners and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark/spots of foxing. Pages quite tanned. Odd small mark/(quite) strong foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. THE BELL. Chatto & Windus, 1958.
Price: US$168.20 + shipping
Description: THE BELL, Chatto & Windus, 1958, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper save for several small chips. A nice copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
iris murdoch. the bell. chatto & windus, london, 1958.
Price: US$169.50 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1958. london: chatto & windus. hardcover.
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
MURDOCH, IRIS. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English Edition. Murdoch's fourth novel, set in an eccentric religious community in Gloucestershire. Fine in about near fine dustjacket with moderate toning to spine panel.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
MURDOCH, IRIS. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$188.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small Octavo. Plain green cloth, gilt spine title, dust jacket by Charles Mozley. From the library of Claude Bissell (1916-2000), Canadian author and educator, President of the University of Toronto 1958-71, with his signature to the front free endpaper, otherwise the interior is clean and sharp. Dust jacket is price-clipped, browned at the spine and flap edges, with tiny nicks to tips. Overall, a very good copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Murdoch (Iris).. The Bell. Chatto & Windus,, 1958.
Price: US$202.04 + shipping
Description: Slight browning to end-papers and foxing to top edge, otherwise a very nice copy in dust-wrapper which is a touch browned at the spine panel, and Book Society Choice wraparound band; book-label, obituary news cuttings loosely inserted
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell - with rare wrap-around band. Chatto and Windus 1958, 1958.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1958. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good+ unclipped wrapper with the rare wrap-around band.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. The Bell. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: Green boards stamped in gold on the spine. Mildly bruised spine head, light toning to free endpapers. Still a bright, fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a darkened spine panel and two minuscule chips to the edges.; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Murdoch, Iris. THE BELL.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition; 1st issue. Printed on smooth paper with the text sheets bulking 21.5 mm, jacket fits the book properly. Small neat calligraphic bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket, small tears at spine edge folds, minor darkening of the spine, but overall very fresh - Very scarce in this advance state, a full Robert Temple report on issue points available for anyone who cares any more. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB), Port Colborne, ON, Canada
Iris Murdoch. The Bell. Chatto and Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first edition of this early work by Murdoch. Book is clean throughout with the exception of a previous owners name and salutation on the FEP. Very little if any age toning which is unusual for a British edition. Jacket is clean but does show age toning to the top edge and on the spine. There is a very small tear 1/8 inch to the top of the front panel otherwise the jacket is bright and fresh. Jacket is now housed in a Brodart cover for protection. A very nice addition to any Murdoch collection.
Seller: BDC Books, Stratford, ON, Canada
Murdoch, Iris. THE BELL. Signed. Chatto & Windus and The Book Society, London, 1958.
Price: US$370.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Lovely True First Edition of the author's fourth novel. With the author's signed presentation note on St. Anne's College, Oxford letterhead tipped to the front free endpaper. A near fine or better copy in emerald green cloth, gilt titles to spine - in a bright very good or better Charles Mozley superbly illustrated dustwrapper, [slightly darkened spine panel], with 3 closed tears neatly & archivally mended. 8vo. 320 pp. "For Peter Weiner / from Iris Murdoch / With good wishes!". An extremely good example of this Burgess 99 novel for 1958.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
IRIS MURDOCH - RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. The Bell. Chatto & Windus LONDON, 1958.
Price: US$500.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A great copy, considering its age. This is signed by Iris Murdoch on the title page, without dedication, and in what looks like a fountain pen ink. It has a former owner's name on the front end paper, but apart from that no faults, no turned over corners. The cover is complete, not price clipped; and it has a superb drawing by Charles Mozley. This is now protected. A rare copy as a signed first edition.
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$634.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY IRIS MURDOCH - Pictures of the book are available upon request.
Seller: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Iris Murdoch. The Bell. Chatto and Windus, London, 1958.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: A signed first edition of Iris Murdoch's fourth novel, 'The Bell.' Signed by Murdoch to the title page. The Bell is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire. In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Dustwrapper is smart also, with just a few handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, aside from some spotting to the textblock edge. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom