1st Edition 1978. Booker winning novel. Includes a letter from the author. Book not signed but includes an Inscribed Letter from Iris Murdoch to Penelope and Ralph Tanner. A general letter thanking them for the Holy Tree gift. Iris also discusses her mothers health whist staying with them.. The Tanners were close friends and neighbours of Murdoch and Bayley in Steeple Ashton, Oxfordshire (Penelope Tanner was also the biographer of the writer Ethel M. Dell and Dr Ralph Tanner, a social anthropologist who was Evelyn Waugh’s batman in 1942. C 1980 . Size 180mm x 140mm Condition is very good. Letter with folding creases. All guaranteed original. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and bright.