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Iris Murdoch. Under The Net. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$26.47 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1954. Second Impression. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages; heaviest to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Minor staining and creasing to gutters and hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has visible creasing and tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Iris Murdoch:. Under the Net. Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$68.28 + shipping
Description: VG/GOOD . the dj is has seen better days and is in generally poor and grubby condition. several missing edge sections as large chips, and splits. spine dj is sunned. rear panel is visibly tanned and tarnished. there is a flap at the bottom end of the dj over the spine which is attached to only one side. the front cover shows a generally clean view with all the artwork sharp against the pink background. the volume beneath has been well protected, and is clean and tidy, if slightly leaning. all pages present. internally, there are no inscriptions or marginalia, but there are prior owner details to ffeps. isolated foxing points to text edge. despite its cover, this is an attractive first edition. collectable.
Seller: lobstabooks, leiston, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. Under the net. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$79.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Murdoch, Iris. Under the net. First edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. Hardback, Good, in POOR unclipped dustjacket in transparent protective sleeve. Reverse of jacket missing completely, top half-inch of front and spine torn away, nicks elsewhere. Green cloth, bumped to corners with a couple of small stains; gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong with a forward lean. Previous ownership signature to fep. 286pp. Dust-staining and light foxing to edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. Under the Net was Murdoch's first published novel. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue. Its mixture of the philosophical and the picaresque has made it one of Murdoch's most popular novels. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. The editors of Modern Library named the work as one of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. Under The Net / a novel. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Good' first edition (no later printings mentioned) in a "good original jacket priced 12s 6d net to bottom of front flap. Chips to head and tail of jacket spine, which is sun-lightened but all type still easily legible. Jacket rear panel shows some sun-browning along the top. Warm NON-authorial gift inscription to the otherwise blank FFE; otherwise unmarked. First printing of her first novel, 286 pp.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Murdoch, IRIS. Under the Net. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback with dust-wrapper. 20.5 x 14cm. 286pp, [1]. 1956 First edition, first impression. Previously owned by Anthony Thwaite with a gift message dated June 23rd 1954 on the free front end-paper. Dust-wrapper, chipped with small losses to head and tail spine. Wrapper foxed. Internally a little foxing to prelims and page edges. A touch of mustiness. A good copy of the first edition of Iris Murdoch's first novel.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
MURDOCH, Iris. UNDER THE NET. London: Chatto & Windus., 1954.
Price: US$1127.23 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Victor Ross illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping and a scuff to the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a couple of spots to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The closed text block edge is spotted. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has a tiny closed tear at the head of the spine and a small area of spotting to the edge of the front flap. Not price-clipped (12s 6d net to the lower front flap). An attractive example. An attractive example of Iris Murdoch's first novel. Subsequently chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English language novels since 1923, and by the editors of Modern Library as one of the greatest English language novels of the twentieth century. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
MURDOCH, Iris.. Under the Net.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the author's first novel, a best-seller that "precipitated her to instant fame" (Wilson, p. 89). One contemporary reviewer declared, "it is quite evidently the work of a new writer of considerable importance" (The Sphere, 12 June 1954). Although this self-reflective novel "is not strictly a 'diary', male first-person narrative liberated her. [Murdoch] had hit upon an idiom in which she felt instinctively at home, and to which she would return, which enabled her to speak confidently through a masculine persona" (Conradi, p. 380). Peter J. Conradi, Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch, 2002; A. N. Wilson, Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her, 2004. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket, designed by Victor Ross. Edges lightly foxed, a near-fine copy in bright dust jacket, unclipped, a little rubbed, a couple of small chips and creases to extremities, hint of foxing to flaps, in very good condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
MURDOCH, Iris.. Under the Net.. London Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$5142.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's green paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, spine ends slightly bumped, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Victor Ross, spine slightly faded (as often), slight chipping to head of spine, light soiling and edge-wear, else an attractive example. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'For Adeline Danger with best wishes from Iris Murdoch July 1954.' The author's first novel, subsequently selected by the American Modern Library as one of the Best 100 English novels of the 20th century.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Murdoch's first novel which announced "the emergence of a brilliant talent" (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Iris Murdoch on the title page. Additionally laid in is a signed postcard, which reads, "Merry Christmas! Iris" postdated December 19, 1953. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Victor Ross. Rare and desirable signed. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue. Murdoch's first novel, its mixture of the philosophical and the picaresque has made it one of Murdoch's most popular novels. It is dedicated to Raymond Queneau. When Jake leaves Madge's flat in Chapter 1, two of the books he mentions taking are Murphy by Samuel Beckett, and Pierrot mon ami by Queneau, both of which are echoed in this story. The epigraph, from John Dryden's Secular Masque, refers to the way in which the main character is driven from place to place by his misunderstandings. It was listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.