The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [ Sealed ]

Muriel Spark

Easton Press, 2006. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Fine - As New / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5174

A very special edition in full leather and signed by the author shortly before her death in April 2006. In fine condition; as new and still contained in the publisher’s original issued cellophane wrap. This signed edition has become scarce in an unopened state.

This title was the basis for the major motion picture of the same name of 1969 that won an Oscar for Maggie Smith who portrayed Miss Jean Brodie. With gold gilt cover designs and edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. Includes the publisher's note from Easton Press. A beautiful copy with all the Easton Press publishing points for a lifetime of re-reads.

Muriel Spark was one of the most celebrated Scottish novelists of the 20th century, leaving behind nearly 2 dozen novels and many short stories and poems. She broke through a number of restrictions on working women and writers of her time. In “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” Spark wryly challenged social norms and pushed the boundaries of what was expected of women. BBC Arts wrote of a particularly funny anecdote: “In Tuscany, where she lived for the last thirty years of her life, Spark used occasionally to give the local nuns designer dresses which she herself no longer needed. The nuns wore them beneath their habits. When of an evening they took a stroll past Spark’s house, her two large and rather frightening dogs, allowed out of their kennels to run wherever they pleased, charged at the terrified nuns, mistaking them for their mistress”.

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