Murdoch, Iris. An Unofficial Rose. First Edition.Iris Murdoch An Unofficial Rose London: Chatto & Windus, 1962 First edition. Octavo. Original cloth, in the publishers unclipped dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding clean and sharp, the contents bright and fresh. The very good dustwrapper shows light rubbing, minor toning a little wear to spine ends and previously repaired minor chips see photographs. It remains attractive and substantially complete. Jacket now protected by removable archival

and well-preserved collector's set of a cornerstone Bloomsbury Group publication

published by Collins in 1950

Spine lean

Jacket design by Biro

however vols

The page edges and top text blocks are uniformly bright and completely free of the common dust speckling or foxing typical of this paper stock

uncommon in this condition with the original unclipped dustwrapper

Features her distinctive

Spine lightly toned

and some discolouration and sunning to spine

Clean cloth boards with bright spine lettering

Lacks the dust jacket