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THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1831449
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1979. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their god. But his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment. Peach cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 316 pages. ISBN: 0701109769. Seventh Impression with a sixth impression dustwrapper illustrated by Edward Bawden. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut by the publisher and is ligthly browned to spine. A lovely copy.

GREENWITCH
Written by Susan Cooper.
Stock no. 1831399
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The third book of The Dark is Rising series. In this dreamlike novel set in Cornwall, magic often occurs during the hours of darkness and yet readers are not left with the feeling that experiences have been merely imagined. The Greenwitch, a figure created by village women, comes into possession of a great secret coveted by the powers of Light and Dark. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 147 pages. ISBN: 0701150483. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly bumped. Tail of spine slightly discoloured. Small knock to top edge of front board. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Includes publisher's compliments slip. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to front panel gutter edge and top edge, rear panel is grubby and has the remains of a label.

NUNS AND SOLDIERS
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1331083
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is a story about honour and innocence, lost and found, and about vicissitudes of a deep friendship between two women. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. 505 pages. ISBN: 0701125195. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date to front free-endpaper. Textblock is slightly dusty. Dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine.

HENRY AND CATO
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1831270
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Henry is an art historian who returns to England from the United States upon inheriting his family estate, and Cato is a Roman Catholic priest who is losing his faith and has secretly fallen in love with a seventeen-year-old boy. Their stories, separate at the beginning of the novel, converge as it progresses. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 339 pages. ISBN: 0701121955. Boards clean. Minor foxing to top edge of text block, lower edge of text block has a minor mark at end. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.

SELECTED POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Margaret Forster.
Stock no. 1831262
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st thus 1988. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is a relatively short compilation of some of the more notable poems by Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Selected and with an introduction and prefaces by Margaret Forster. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxii and 330 pages including index. ISBN: 0701133112. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly sunned.

TAI-LU FLIES ABROAD
Written by Shelagh Fraser; Billy Thatcher; Gilbert Harding. Illustrated by Kenneth Rowell.
Stock no. 1329062
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards. Full page b/w illustrations on coloured paper. Further adventures of the noble Siamese Cat, Tai-Lu. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Browning to endpapers, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped, lightly foxed to spine.

THE DONKEY RIDE
Written by Jean B. Showalter. Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer.
Stock no. 1316305
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

A fable adapted by Showalter. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0701150335. Boards warped. Some light spotting to textblock. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Original price label to rear cover.