THE BELL

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Charles Mozely illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, the foot of the spine with a very slight bump. The contents, with a bookplate to the front pastedown, light offsetting to the endpapers and a little spotting to the closed top edge of the text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a few tiny nicks at the edges, mild toning to the spine and a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (15s net to the front flap).

An attractive example of Iris Murdoch's fourth novel, this being the correct Chatto and Windus first printing rather than the edition issued with The Book Society.