Iris Murdoch — The Good Apprentice
London, Chatto and Windus, 1985. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this Iris Murdoch novel. Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke. After Mark, still high, falls to his death from a window, Edward is wracked with guilt and depression  worsened by daily letters from Mark's mother cursing him as a murderer. In a teal cloth binding with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. Dustwrapper is very smart also. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.