The Philosopher's Pupil Hardcover - 1983

Chatto & Windus, 1983-04-28. 1st Thus, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/VG+/VG++. Box 52 HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1983* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing man in a towelling robe overseeing a man swimming in the pool. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £7.95. Blue and green titles to face lightly faded spine. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Owners bookplate to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks and age darkening to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 576 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: There are magical incidents in this novel. The first is when the McCaffrey family goes on a picnic to the seaside and a little boy loses his dog while swimming in the sea. Several members of the family dive in and search frantically for the dog, to no avail. In the meantime, George McCaffrey, who has got separated from the family and is not aware that the dog has gone missing, finds it ""by accident"" (or by magic?). George is the ""philosopher's pupil"" and the key character in the novel. The second instance of ""magic"" is when he visits his former teacher John Robert Rozanov in the Roman Baths and finds him apparently unconscious, or possibly already dead. The ""magical"" coincidence is that George happened to come across Rozanov at that particular point in time.* A NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st./1st with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Some wear and age darkening reducing it to VG+.* 0