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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good
- Seller
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Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Item Price
€397.04
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About This Item
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
by Muriel Spark
1961 - First Edition, First Printing
Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
8" x 5 1/2"
170 Pages
The jacket is in good to good minus condition with minimal edge wear and the jacket has been price clipped. The jacket is now protected with a removable Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good condition, free from rips, tear, stains, bends, and writing. There is a gift inscription to the previous owner written in pencil on the front free end page. There are a few pages with minor corner bends. The boards are in good minus condition with very light edge wear. The binding is tight and square.
Synopsis
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, author Muriel Spark’s best-known work, is the story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher who inspires cult-like reverence in her young female student-followers, referred to as “the crème de la crème.” Proud and cultured, Miss Brodie makes her distaste for conventional education known to the girls and she instead instills in them her own passion for art, music, men, and all things Italian. At first, her ideas dazzle and seduce the girls; however, Miss Brodie’s hubris—her excessive self-confidence—also exposes the girls to a new world of adult games and boundary crossing. Miss Brodie’s character is loosely based on Christina Kay, who taught Sparks for two years at James Gillespie's School for Girls. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is so short that it was first published, in its entirety, in the New Yorker. (Macmillan later reissued it in novel form). The novel has been adapted several times. Perhaps most notable is the 1969 film adaptation, starring Maggie Smith who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is ranked 76th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and 79th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novel. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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- Bookseller
- Dara's Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 376
- Title
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Author
- Muriel Spark
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 170
- Size
- 8" x 5 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition;
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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