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Iris Murdoch SIGNED. The Good Apprentice. Chatto and Windus, UK, 1985.
Price: US$85.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition 1992. London Limited Edition of 250 with this being number 166. Flat signed by the author to the title page. Book is fine and bright. Never issued with a wrapper. More digital images can be taken upon request. Ref 13755 ###017683
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Iris Murdoch. The Good Apprentice. Chatto and Windus, London, 1985.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Orange design cloth with rust cloth spine wrapand gilt lettering/rules to spine. Number 133 of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. This copy is NEAR FINE in a FINE tissue DJ, encased in a clear plastic wrapper.Issued by London Limited Editions. No noticeable blemishes. Text page edgesevenly toned. Lovely
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Murdoch, Iris. THE GOOD APPRENTICE. Chatto & Windus, London, 1985.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Copy #181 of 250 numbered copies issued by London Limited Editions. Signed by Murdoch on the limitation page as issued. Quarter cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Issued with an acetate dustwrapper. Tiny rub spot on front board paper and beginning page toning; dustwrapper with beginning toning on spine and minimal edgwear. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustwrapper in an archival cover. Murdoch's twenty-second novel.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red-Brown Cloth, Gilt, Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards. #186 Of A Limited Edition Of 250 Copies Signed By Author And In A Special Binding. Fine. Lacking The Plain Glassine Book Jacket.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
MURDOCH, Iris. The Good Apprentice. Chatto & Windus, 1985.
Price: US$161.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author on title page: "For Kenneth and Stephen / with love / from / Iris Murdoch". Paper browned as usual, slight crease to spine, otherwise near Fine in dustwrapper.
Seller: Kestrel Books and Gallery, Hereford, United Kingdom
MURDOCH, IRIS. THE GOOD APPRENTICE. Chatto and Windus, London, 1985.
Price: US$166.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 522pp; Pages slightly yellowed to edges else a very bright copy; Not price-clipped; Signed by author to title page; Size: 8vo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
MURDOCH Iris. The good apprentice. Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth press, London, 1985.
Price: US$199.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fort in-8 pleine toile d'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, 522 p. Première édition courante britannique. Envoi autographe signé de Iris Murdoch à Jean Queval et sa femme : "For Jean and Nan with love from Iris". Jean Queval avait traduit en langue française "Le rêve de Bruno", paru chez Gallimard en 1969. Dos légèrement insolé, par ailleurs en très bonne condition.
Seller: Librairie L'Autre sommeil, BECHEREL, France
Murdoch, Iris. The Good Apprentice. Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, London, 1985.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Iris Murdoch directly on the title page. Toning to page margins, a small stain near mid-page edge, bottom inch of back endpage torn/missing, and shallow crimp to cloth at foot of spine, else book in fine condition; in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: mint in glacene dust jacket, preserved in a bespoke cloth book-box with the initials B J H on the front cover. first edition; 522 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
MURDOCH IRIS. THE GOOD APPRENTICE. Chatto & Windus, London, 1985.
Price: US$355.23 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Usual tanning to the page block edges otherwise a near fine copy (faint outline of a tape residue mark to the FFEP caused by an old D/W protector) in a fine D/W. With the VERY SCARCE wrap-around band advertising: "Shortlisted for the/ BOOKER McCONNELL/ PRIZE 1985". Signed by the Author on the title page. Scarce with these attributes (especially with the wrap-around band).
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom