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Murdoch, Iris
The Bell
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London;
Date of Publication: 1958
Stock Code: 12045
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 319, [1]. Publishers’ forest green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in price clipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley. Bright, clean binding with just a hint of creasing at tail of spine. Endpapers lightly toned next to dust-jacket flaps. Contents clean other than a neat ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper. Verso of dust-jacket lightly toned with browned adhesive tape repair at head of spine, largely not visible externally. Murdoch’s fourth novel, set in Gloucestershire in a lay religious community next to a convent of Benedictine nuns. £100.00