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London: Macmillan, 1961. The twinkling wit of Muriel Spark is always a joy to behold, and never more so, in my opinion, than in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Connolly, 260). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. It was adapted to film in 1969 for which Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition of Spark's complex, suspenseful novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication to her American agent, Dorothy Golding, "Dorothy - happy remembrances & love - Mariel 4 October 1965." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter. The Mandelbaum Gate is set in Jerusalem in 1961 (with the backdrop of the Adolf Eichmann trial). While on a pilgrimage to Holy Land, half Jewish Catholic-convert Barbara Vaughan is planning to meet her fiance Harry Clegg, an archeologist working in Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found). To do this she must pass through the Mandelbaum Gate into Jordanian held Jerusalem; due to her Jewish roots this is a dangerous operation and she enlists the help of Freddy Hamilton, a staid British diplomat and various Arab contacts who may or may not be sympathetic to her cause. ''Takes the breath away . . . Pure adventure . . .… Read More

First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. One of the Modern Library s 100 greatest novels of the century, and the basis for the acclaimed 1969 film. An outstanding example. Very scarce signed.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd,, 1960. First edition, first impression, scarce presentation copy inscribed "Barbara, lots of love from Muriel". The recipient's surname has been rubbed out, but can be confidently inferred from Spark's autograph letter and envelope which is taped in at the front pastedown, addressed to Barbara Richards, dated 30 Sept 1958, thanking her and her husband Eric for their hospitality after a holiday. Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in red. With dust jacket, supplied. Canterbury bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Sunning to spine and along board edges, ends and corners worn, spine rolled, sound and clean inside, a good copy with the jacket rubbed at extremities, but bright and intact.

New York: Robert Whitehead Productions, 1968. Working script for the 1968 Broadway play, which ran from January 16, 1968, to December 14, 1968, at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Copy belonging to assistant stage manager Jim Oyster, with his name on the title page in manuscript ink, and his annotations throughout, amending dialogue and noting deletions. Laid in with the script are six revision pages on white stock. Based on the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, and basis in turn for the 1969 British film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith. A charismatic middle aged teacher at a Scottish all-girls school in the 1930s leads her favored students into dubious, and eventually dangerous, political ground. Set in Edinburgh. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, noted as copy No. 16 in manuscript ink, with credits for playwright Jay Allen and novelist Muriel Spark. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 3-9-38. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1960. Muriel Spark's 1960 comic novel follows Dougal Douglas, who is hired by a company to poke into the private lives of its employees. Douglas turns out to be a demonical researcher who butts in so much he begins to influence his subjects actions rather than just observe them. One of the funniest books I have ever read . . . far and away our best woman novelist" (Penelope Mortimer).

London: Macmillan, 1963. First edition of Spark's novella, which follows female inhabitants of London's May of Teak Club in the summer of 1945. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by H. Cowdell. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment.

London: Macmillan, 1957. A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1957. A fine book without inscriptions without inscriptions. In a near fine (or better) clipped (and publisher's repriced) wrapper with wear and rubbing to the corners and spine tips and one small internal repair to corner. A superb copy of the Author's first novel.

London: Macmillan, 1965. First edition of this classic novel by Spark. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning. The Mandelbaum Gate is set in Jerusalem in 1961 (with the backdrop of the Adolf Eichmann trial). While on a pilgrimage to Holy Land, half Jewish Catholic-convert Barbara Vaughan is planning to meet her fiance Harry Clegg, an archeologist working in Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found). To do this she must pass through the Mandelbaum Gate into Jordanian held Jerusalem; due to her Jewish roots this is a dangerous operation and she enlists the help of Freddy Hamilton, a staid British diplomat and various Arab contacts who may or may not be sympathetic to her cause. ''Takes the breath away . . . Pure adventure . . . Suspense as artfully maintained as anything by Graham Greene" (The New Republic).

London: Macmillan, 1959. Signed first edition. Hardcover, 266 pp. Green cloth binding shows moderate toning on edges and some bumping to the corners. Slight lean, but binding is strong, and overall in good condition. Dust jacket shows a few 2mm tears at top and bottom of spine. Moderate soiling to back cover. Some pen marks on the cover, mostly unnoticible. Inscribed to the writer-couple June and Neville Braybrooke at free leaf end paper: " June + Neville, Love from Muriel". A lovely association. An omniscient narrator follows a circle of elderly posh Britons and their tangled relationships and secret histories. Everyone dies, obvs. Dark and comic.

London: Macmillan, 1961. The twinkling wit of Muriel Spark is always a joy to behold, and never more so, in my opinion, than in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Connolly, 260). Listed on Modern Library's 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. It was adapted to film in 1969 for which Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Macmillan, London., 1963. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 110.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Christopher - love from Muriel''. The recipient is her fellow playwright Christopher Fry whom Spark first met when she accompanied her then lover Derek Stanford to Fry's house at Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1950 when Stanford was writing a book on him. It seems from Martin Stannard's biography of Spark that she was the one of the pair who most impressed Fry during the visit. Stanford himself, in his book on Spark published in 1963, admits that the most significant result of the visit was a poem that she wrote afterwards.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper.

Macmillan, 1961. First edition, first printing + the original publisher's proof copy for the title. 8vo. Turquoise boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with clean boards. Some very light mottling spots to gutter hinge & spine o/w fine. Internally clean and complete. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper has light wear only to extremities. None of the usual fading to red lettering on spine. Original price of 13s6dnet on front flap. The original Publisher's Proof copy has orange decorative Publisher's card covers. A very good+ copy with clean covers. Old retailers booksellers ink stamp to front cover. No chipping or splitting. Internally clean with no marks & no inscriptions. One corner crease. Proof copies of these Twentieth Century minor classics are becoming hard to find & make a great accompaniment to the first edition. In 1998 Modern Library ranked this title in its list of 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably in… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. A little cocked, spine a little faded, and three light tape shadows on the front fly, else very good lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, (1968)., (1968).. Very good. INSCRIBED TO BOB WILSON OF THE PHOENIX BOOKSHOP & SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY - Oblong octavo, 6-3/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. Bound in pictorial orange cloth stamped in purple with an illustration by Gorey, in a color pictorial dust wrapper titled in orange on the front panel and in black on the spine. The front folds of the dust jacket are very slightly rubbed with a couple of very tiny chips to the jacket's edges. Unpaginated, illustrated with pictorial endpapers & full-page black & white illustrations by Edward Gorey on the rectos and text by Muriel Spark on the verso. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition, with no statement of edition. [Toledano B40a]. INSCRIBED by GOREY to BOB WILSON of the PHOENIX BOOKSHOP: 'For Bob / 24 November 1969 / Edward Gorey".Copies of this title signed by Gorey are RARE.

London: Macmillan and Co. 1st printing (1959). 245pp. Flat SIGNED by the author on title page in blue ink. VG book, binding tight but has slight forward lean, some light fading to cloth covers with faint hand-shape toning on front panel, internally excellent, in Good edge worn jacket with a few small closed tears, some minor chipped losses to corners and spine ends, gently rubbed with a hint of fading, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector. Decorative bookplate to front pastedown of Mary Anna Marten (1929-2010), the English aristocrat and landowner who made legal history in the Crichel Down affair . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1959.

London: Macmillan, 1961. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Title written on spine in pencil, else fine. Basis for the stage version with Vanessa Redgrave and then the film starring Maggie Smith, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the title role of the flamboyant but flawed Scottish schoolteacher. A very nice copy of this scarce format.

New York: Knopf, 1963. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First USA Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author to her British publisher, Tom Maschler, on the front flyleaf: " Tom warm fond love Muriel (in New York Sept 1963)". From the library of Tom Maschler with his bookplate laid in. Maschler was the renowned Jonathan Cape publisher.