The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie SPARK, Muriel (1918-2006) Literature

[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 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).