The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 171. Publisher's turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. Originally printed in the October 14, 1961 issue of The New Yorker.

Upper board edges gently bumped, verso of dustwrapper tanned to folds, minor creasing to spine tips, publisher's price sticker to front flap, else a fine, sharp copy.

"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . ." A charismatic, unconventional schoolmistress in 1930s Edinburgh has a devastating impact on her charges. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, at Marcia Blaine School for "Gels". Basis for the stage version with Vanessa Redgrave and then the 1969 film by Ronald Neame, which starred Maggie Smith in her Academy Award-winning title role. The Modern Library's 200 Best Novels in English since 1950.

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