Search Results: the girls of slender means by spark muriel 1918 2006

London: Macmillan, 1963. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Hardie, priced at £1.75. A few light marks to edges, single word 'low' in ink to flyleaf, minor wear to extremities of jacket. Very good indeed. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the best ninety-nine novels in English published since 1939. Muriel Spark won the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A. & C. Black Ltd., and one of the oldest and most prestigious book awards in Britain.

London : Macmillan & Co., 1963. First edition. "Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage, than the girls of slender means" – "A comedy of manners and characters that at the same time resounds with profound and unsettling intimations. All Miss Spark's powers are at full strength" (Birmingham Daily Post, 24th September 1963). Crown 8vo (20cm). [vi],(184),[ii]pp. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt; a very good, sound and clean copy in the evocative autumnal dust-jacket by Harry Cowdell (1912-1987) - just lightly sunned and slightly rubbed at extremities.