The Bell
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
-
Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chatto & Windus, November 1958. Reprinted Twice November 1958 320 pages. Illustrated dust jacket; green cloth boards. Gilt lettering spine. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minimal tanning, no inscriptions, some foxing to page edges. Some tanning to free endpapers from dust jacket flaps. Overall this is a book in good condition. Little shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Unclipped jacket has has tears to edges and spine, spine tanned
Synopsis
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean...Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Warren
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10000292
- Title
- The Bell
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- !958
- Pages
- 320
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.83 lbs
Terms of Sale
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Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway
About The Book Warren
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
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- Flap(s)
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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