Spinster

by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

$15 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 8vo, vi , 242, 1 pp. Original quarter cloth with blue boards lettered in gilt, a few light marks to the backstrip. Original unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel faded, some worming, largely to the rear panel. § First US edition. Based on the New Zealand novelist’s own experience of teaching Maori children. It was made into the film, Two Loves 1961 , starring Shirley MacLaine. Item #110492

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