The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

£425 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Macmillan and Co., 1961. Modern Literature FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp. 4 171 1 . Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Victor Reinganum, priced at 13/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A clean, fine copy in similar jacket with trivial rubs to extremities. The author's defining novel, and basis for the 1969 Oscar winning movie starring Maggie Smith as the liberated

• Printing: first

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