Spark (Muriel) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
£175
London, Macmillan, 1961.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first edition of Mrs Spark’s most famous work, introducing one of 20th century literature’s most iconic, and complex, characters – at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
In stock
Book VG+; jacket price-clipped and with some rubbing and minor chipping to edges, but otherwise VG.
Jacket artwork by Victor Reinganum.
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