The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul": First Edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Signed by Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

SPARK, Muriel.

$3,000.00

Item Number: 73072

London: Macmillan, 1961.

First edition of Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch or rubbing. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. Uncommon signed.

"The twinkling wit of Muriel Spark is always a joy to behold, and never more so, in my opinion, than in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Connolly, 260). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. It was adapted to film in 1969 for which Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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