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Henry And Cato
by Iris Murdoch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0701121955
- ISBN 13
- 9780701121952
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "COLLECTABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Grey/blue cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal age to edges. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated dust wrapper showing an acrobat on the trapeze. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £ 4.00. Black & white titles on green and brown ground. Black titles to slightly faded spine. Some age marks to rear flap fold, (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, slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 340 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: Henry, who is in his early thirties, leaves America and returns to the family estate in England after the death of his elder brother, Sandy, who was killed in a car accident. Henry, who has never enjoyed a close relationship with his brother, and is resentful of his mother (who Henry knows always preferred Sandy to him) is not sorry that Sandy is dead and he decides to set the cat amongst the pigeons by informing his mother that he intends to sell the house and the whole estate.* A 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).*
Synopsis
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents, grew up in London and was educated at Oxford and Cambridge. She is the author of 26 novels and several works of philosophy. She died in 1999.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10450
- Title
- Henry And Cato
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0701121955
- ISBN 13
- 9780701121952
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 341
- Keywords
- Novel, Fiction, Blackmail, Murder.
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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