The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie SPARK, Muriel (1918-2006) Gift Books & Fine Bindings,Literature

[Modern Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 171 [1]. Recently re-bound in green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Edges lightly trimmed for binding; with the publisher's original green cloth spine bound in at rear. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. The author's defining novel, and basis for the 1969 Oscar winning movie starring Maggie Smith as the liberated Edinburgh schoolmistress. Muriel Spark won the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. and C. Black Ltd., and one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain. Callil & Tóibín, The Modern Library. (200 Best Novels in English since 1950). Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels [2003], also in Time Magazine; 100 Best Modern Novels. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties', selected title for World Book Night (2011).