MURDOCH, IRIS — Nuns and Soldiers
New York: The Viking Press, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670518263. A first American edition of the 20th novel by Iris Murdoch. The story is centered around her Gertrude Openshaw character, who loses her husband to cancer and finds herself in a romance with a younger man. The prolific Ms. Murdoch was a professor of philosophy at Oxford and wrote many highly-praised novels. --- In tan paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket with Tom Blau photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with mild spine sunning, a tear to rear top edge and minor curling to edges, else bright, intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 505 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
