The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Macmillan, 1961.
First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper by Victor Reinganum. Bookplate signed by the author pasted to the title page. A very good copy indeed, in a very good dustwrapper, with some wear to the spine ends and margins, a little dustiness to the lower panel and an address label pasted to the front flap.
Spark's sixth and best known novel was also published in shortened form in the New Yorker of October 14th 1961, taking up most of the issue of the magazine and being only the second work to be conferred the honour of being published at this length in the weekly. This edition, the first appearance of the work, precedes The New Yorker issue by nine days.
Reflecting on the novel, David Lodge has written "A truly original writer is a very rare bird... reviewing The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1961 I declared myself "beguiledÂ…but not really stirred or involved or enlightened." It was some time before I realized that the disappointment was entirely my own fault and that the novel was a masterpiece."
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