Black Prince by Murdoch Iris, First Edition (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex library; dust jacket in Mylar cover ; spine rolled; withdrawal mark on top edge near spine; soiled along all edges; pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed and the laminate is lifting at the front. Old tape residue marks. It still looks good in cellophane. The front end page has been removed. Internally clean and tightly bound. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. library marks endpapers and title page, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear and creasing, library sticker spine. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted international postage Size: 8vo - over 7Ÿ" - 9Ÿ" tall. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg/F/VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK "WITH NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973 * Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Bright purple cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated dust wrapper showing a mask in black & white on a lavender ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £2.50. Black titles on a lavender, white and black design to spine and face. Some very slight age marks to flap folds, (now in clear un-attached archival jacket). VG+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners, dated, hand written name and address to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, minimal marks & offsetting to prelims, some marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 364 pp. text. iii pp. blank page at rear.* Description: A novel in which an elderly writer with a block, surrounded by predatory friends and relations, seeks to escape, but his failure to do so and its aftermath lead to a violent climax. From the author of "The Sea, The Sea," and "The Bell". Iris Murdoch (1919?1999) was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century. She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea, It also won the Royal Society Literary Award in 1987, and she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth. Her final years were clouded by a long struggle with Alzheimer's before her passing in 1999.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st./1st. with some minor age and wear reducing it to VG+, (now in clear un-attached protective film cover).*.

First edition. Chatto & Windus, London. 1973. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 364 pages. Dust-wrapper a little worn and rubbed esp. to extremities incl. small open tears and discolouration to spine. A well-used ex-library copy with usual stamps and signs of label removal + notes to rear paste-down end-paper.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. xviii, 364 pp. Octavo. Original purple cloth boards and illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped, but in very good plus condition. Clean and bright text in near fine condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 363 pages. 480 grams. Book is in good ex-library condition with associated markings. Dust jacket is in good condition currently enclosed in library clear protective covering. 'The Black Prince is a story about being in love; it is also a study of an artist's inspiration, a love song to Shakespeare, and many other things. It is certainly a very exciting tale. The hero and narrator, Bradly Pearson, is an elderly 'blocked writer' whose best friend Arnold Baffin, a considerably younger man, is a deplorably successful producer of best-sellers. Jealousy, fear, love, hate and misunderstanding bedevil this increasingly complex relationship. Bradley is encompassed by predatory friends and relative; his long-vanished and now very rich ex-wife appears with maddening plans for a heart-warming reconciliation; his delinquent brother-in-law follows, hoping for a windfall or at least some interesting trouble; Arnold's wife nourishes an emotional attachment to him; Arnold's teenage daughter wants him to teach her to be a writer.Bradley cannot stand it any longer; he attempts to run away but finds himself the captive of an ambiguous power beyond his control.And so a very intellectual thriller moves to its violent climax. This is a remarkable novel, compelling both as a story with a marvellously involuted plot and as a meditation on the natureof art, of love, and of the power of human relationships.' 8vo - over 7Ÿ" - 9Ÿ" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Modern First Editions.; Fiction, Mystery. ISBN: 0701119241. ISBN/EAN: 9780701119249. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 002890.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Published in 1973; no additional printing listed. Previous owner's gift inscription on half title page. Clean text and interior otherwise. Unclipped dust jacket with $7.95 price intact. Red top stain to top edge of text block. Bright orange boards with embossed decoration on front cover, yellow cloth spine with black title. Tight, square binding. A very nice copy, with only gift inscription as flaw, of a hard to find jacketed title.

Hardback. Printed pages: 364. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket: A couple of light indentations, very slight browning to edges. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good Plus. Book: First printing. Mauve cloth binding. Very light crease to spine. Very light crease to lower edge of first three leaves, otherwise in first class condition throughout. Winner of the 1973 James Tait Black Memorial prize. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 5.25 x 8 inches (13.5 x 20 cm).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First impression Publisher's purple cloth case binding, gilt. A very good jacket with just slight browning to the topedge. Overall a near fine copy.xviii+364pp.

First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (true first). xviii, 364pp. With a foreword by Bradley Pearson, and editorial afterwords. In purple cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (boards just a little rounded at spine ends and corners, ripple in spine cloth). Small mark on top corner of front endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (by Christopher Cornford), very slightly rubbed at spine ends, with small portions missing from top corners of front and rear inner flaps, and small, mild mark on front inner flap. Modern Fiction Firsts, novels, fiction,

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 363, [1]. Original purple boards, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in black and purple. Dustjacket lightly creased and faded along spine panel, rear panel a touch marked.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Very fine first UK edition hardcover, black boards, gold lettering. Jacket very fine, no edge wear, not price-clipped. Murdoch first published The Black Prince in 1973. She has now adapted the play for the stage, with its first performance at the Aldwych Theatre, London. 303 pages. M06526.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, some toning on the page edges, and a crease on the spine thus very good in a very good dust jacket with toning, a spot on the rear panel, and some edgewear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this novel by Irish author, Iris Murdoch. This is Murdoch's fifteenth novel, which eventually was released as a stage play. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper, 'Julian Andrews'. Possibly the same Julian Andrews, head of the British council, who is referred to in Iris Murdoch's letters. Narratively, the work consists of a central story book-ended by forewords and post-scripts written by featured characters. It is a story about love, in the context of romantic love, an artist's inspiration, a love song to Shakespeare and much more. The main characters are Bradley Pearson, an elderly writer and his best friend, Arnold Baddin, a younger man. The work explores their complex relationship riddled with jealousy, fear, love, hate and misunderstanding. Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher, born in Ireland. Primarily her novels focus on themes of morality, spirituality and sexuality. A prominent philosopher, she is now increasingly accredited for her work in the field of philosophy, most notably her work on the reinterpretation of Aristotle and Plato, as well as her discussions of moral philosophy. In her lifetime Murdoch wrote 26 novels, as well of a series of short stories and several philosophical papers. In the original full cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart with minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. A few light brown tidemarks to the top of the front board. Dustwrapper is very smart with just some light sunning to the spine and wrap edges. A few brown tidemarks, possibly from the spilling of tea, to the internals of wrap both to the flyleaf and to the front wrap at the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Tidemarks have affected the head of pastedown and to the recto of front endpaper. Pages are generally bright and clean. Light tidemark to the top edge and foredge. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($7.95) intact on front flap. 366 pp. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. One of her best novels. For some reason, the American first edition of this title is quite hard to find. This is Murdoch's fifteenth novel, which eventually was released as a stage play. A beautiful copy.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo 364pp., Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, Second Impression (1974). Inscribed and signed by author as follows, " James Mellor/ with the very good wishes of Iris Murdoch. on a sunny day November 1st 1977.Book is in very good condition with minor shelf wear to edges of purple cloth. Silver lettering to spine bright.Some yellowing of page edges throughout but vert clean . Sticking dust jacket designed by Christopher Cornford in excellent condition, not price clipped and in protective cover. An outstanding copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Shelf wear.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo 364pp., Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first U.S edition of this novel by Irish author, Iris Murdoch. This is Murdoch's fifteenth novel, which eventually was released as a stage play. The first U.S edition. Narratively, the work consists of a central story book-ended by forewords and post-scripts written by featured characters. It is a story about love, in the context of romantic love, an artist's inspiration, a love song to Shakespeare and much more. The main characters are Bradley Pearson, an elderly writer and his best friend, Arnold Baddin, a younger man. The work explores their complex relationship riddled with jealousy, fear, love, hate and misunderstanding. Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher, born in Ireland. Primarily her novels focus on themes of morality, spirituality and sexuality. A prominent philosopher, she is now increasingly accredited for her work in the field of philosophy, most notably her work on the reinterpretation of Aristotle and Plato, as well as her discussions of moral philosophy. In her lifetime Murdoch wrote 26 novels, as well of a series of short stories and several philosophical papers. In the original quarter cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the head and tail of spine as well as to the extremities. Slight fading to board edges. A few light spots to the spine. Dustwrapper is very smart with minor bumping to the head of wraps. Slight sunning to the wrap edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pale orange cloth quarter-bound to spine over darker orange colored paper on boards. Fleur-de-lis like design blind-stamped to front and black lettering stamped to spine, with top edge dyed light red. Black endpapers. Large book is tight, square and free of any markings or flaws inside and out, other than a very faint fading to the bottom of the front - would fine otherwise but Near Fine as it. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows original price of $7.95 and has very little scuffing or sheflwear, other than a small closed tear to top of spine. First American Edition, First Printing of this collectible novel by Murdoch. 366 pp.

First edition. Fine in a fine d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Booker Prize shortlist. Inscribed by the author to fellow Oxonian David Kirke, founder member of the Dangerous Sports Club and inventor of bungee jumping: "David Kirke / with my very best / wishes / Iris Murdoch". Edges dusty and little marked, slight crease to spine, slight warping to boards, otherwise Very Good indeed in dustwrapper. Scarce signed. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

Ldn., Chatto & Windus, 1973. Orig. purple cloth, orig. d-j., not price-clipped. Mint condition. Like new. First edition.