The Message to the Planet

First edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [viii], 563. Publisher's green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket with cover illustration by Tom Phillips (priced £13.95 net to front flap).

A signed, limited edition, bound from the sheets of this first trade edition, was published concurrently by London Limited Editions in an issue of 150 numbered copies.

Signed by Author to title-page. Page edges lightly toned, else fine.

Murdoch's 24th novel, published in her 71st year. The story of a charismatic thinker and healer based on the mathematician Georg Kreisel. "Huge and satisfying... [A] novel of ideas that feels as deeply as it thinks." –USA Today