SPARK, Muriel
THE FANFARLO

Imprint: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback

SPARK, Muriel. THE FANFARLO and other verse. Aldington, Ashford, Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. First edition, second issue. 35 pp. Pamphlet format; pale grey-green wrappers with title printed in blue to front wrapper, sewn. This copy is near fine, having only a faint impression to first blank and front cover where a paperclip had been attached, and some negligible very light soiling to wrappers. This is an early work by Spark. (Tominaga & Schneidermeyer 1377)., Fine

Stock number: 64991.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Boston Book Company

$US 45.00

SPARK**, MURIEL:
THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS.

Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1963.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Neat, black ink owner inscrptn to top of front free endpaper and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,maroon and grey/ blue marble effect colour illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Ubiquitous,but very miniscule rubbing with reciprocal loss to 3 corners - the top two and front lower. Top+fore-edges though lightly toned are generally bright and clean,with some minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - text body clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - owner inscrptn excepted.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-182pp [paginated] includes 9 chapters; plus [unpaginated] book's precis,title page,dedication,last page unpaginated and 2pp blanks at the rear. '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.' The time is 1945,the sombre yet curiously carefree and vital months between VE and VJ Days.The Girls of Slender Means live in the May of Teck Club,an imposing edifice opposite the Albert Memorial,which exists 'for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of thirty years, obliged to reside apart from their families in order to follow an occupation in London'. Through the girls - and their occupations and friends - Mrs Spark presents a brilliant microcosm of life at this point in history,restlessly poised between war and peace.But,as always in Mrs Spark's writings,the recorded events are seen from a viewpoint which lifts them out of the purely temporal context of her story and sharply reminds the reader of eternity from time to time.The seemingly settled pattern of life at the May of Teck Club is subtly changed by the appearance of Nicholas Farringdon,one of the poet-anarchists of the time,later to be martyred in Haiti. The reactions of the girls to the unexpected but revealing situations in which they find themselves makes a novel which is vintage Spark,funny,poignant and a sheer delight to read. View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included. Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja646616. ISBN: No ISBN.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY

£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 )

SPARK, Muriel
The Girls Of Slender Means

Imprint: Macmillan 1963
Edition: First Edition

1st ed,nera fine (stains on fore edge) clipped d/w, spine ends v. sl. worn.

Stock number: 3185.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Collectors Treasury

$US 30.00

SPARK**, MURIEL:
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER.

Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,1973.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy colour pictorial artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black+red lettering,white Spine/ backstrip with black lettering;rear panel undecorated - plain pale blue; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping creasing to edges and corners - an approx. 1cm closed tear (unrepaired) to front's head of spine's gutter fold/crease - no other nicks,tears or splits present and miniscule pushing at head+foot of spine/ backstrip.An accidental top corner dog-ear crease to rear inner flap of dw/dj - these the only detracting faults.Top+fore-edges particularly and exceptionally bright and clean and unusuall,without blemish,foxing or spotting; contents similar - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished, sharp-cornered,original,plain khaki/tan cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,unblemished plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-168pp [paginated] incldes VIII (8) chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+titlepages. He is stabding in the middle of the room.She is sitting by the window,staring out over the east River.The late sunlight from the opposite window touches her shoulders and hair,it casts the shadow of palm leaves across the carpet,over her arm.The chair she sits in casts a shadow before her. There is another shadow,hers.It falls behind her. Behind her,and cast by what light?She is casting a shadow in the wrong direction.There's no light shining upon her from the east window.What is she looking at? So,the scene is set for perhaps the most enchanted of all the voyages to which Mrs. Spark has invited her readers.On a round trip from present-day life in New York to war-time Intelligence work in England in 1944 and back again,the story gathers in characters who could only have been created by the author of Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Comforters.The pace,wit,humour and fantasy with which the narrative is endowed are, quite simply,dazzling but through it all there is a strong sense of experience,of life being lived and observed,albeit in her own words "from a slight angle to the Universe". 'The Hothouse by the East River' is a novel to be read many times and one whose shadow will never grow less no matter where it falls. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p FREE. Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja963721. ISBN: 0333104323.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY

£ 55.00 (approx. $US 71.58 )

SPARK, Muriel;
The Mandelbaum Gate

Imprint: Macmillan, 1965
Edition: First Edition Uncorrected Proof

A near fine copy in the original thin card orange printed wrappers as issued, tiny closed marginal tear fore-edge front panel, pp.52/53 carelessly opened with some chipping blank margins.else an attractive clean bright tight example of this scarce proof

Stock number: 56217.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Collectors Treasury

$US 75.00

Spark, Muriel
The Mandelbaum Gate

Imprint: Macmillan, 1965
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

The jacket is shelf rubbed and marked.Front end page removed.No inscrptions.Well bound.EK.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

Stock number: rq30.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chapter1

$US 4.00

Spark, Muriel
The Novels of Muriel Spark: Volume 2: Loitering With Intent/the Girls of Slender Means/the Abbess of Crewe/the Bachelors/the Ballad of Peckham Rye

Imprint: N Y, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 624 pages.. Fiction. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine

Stock number: 147453. ISBN: 0395726719

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Pistil Books Online

$US 18.95

Spark, Muriel [editor],
THE POETRY REVIEW,

Imprint: The Poetry Society, London, December 1948 to January 1949,

volume 39 No 5, p390-p444, octavo, original paper wrappers, fine condition, a little dusty. Poems and reviews.

Stock number: C848.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Thomas Rare Books

£ 18.00 (approx. $US 23.43 )

Spark, Muriel [editor],
THE POETRY REVIEW,

Imprint: The Poetry Society, London, August-September 1948,

volume 39 No 3, p234-316, octavo, original paper wrappers, fine condition, a little dusty. poems and reviews by Alex Comfort, Herbert Corby etc.

Stock number: C850.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Thomas Rare Books

£ 18.00 (approx. $US 23.43 )

Spark, Muriel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Imprint: London, Folio Society, 1999
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover, No Jacket

2nd Folio Society printing, 152 pages, illustrated by Beryl Cook, very good condition slipcase., Fine

Stock number: 168127.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Gravity Books

£ 7.50 (approx. $US 9.76 )

Spark, Muriel
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

Imprint: London, The Folio Society, 2000
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardback

4to. 152pp, Blue thistle patterned boards in a royal blue slip-case. A lovely mint copy.. Illustr.: Beryl Cook. Book Condition: Mint. Binding: Slipcase

Stock number: GT264.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Thomas Rare Books

£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 )

SPARK Muriel
The Takeover

Imprint: London, MacMillan, 1976
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. very tidy, unclipped DW unmarked under plastic sleeve but the backstrip is slightly sunned, clean tidy copy but with name to fep and some adhesive stain along top and bottom edges of feps offset from plastic sleeve. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good

Stock number: 008542. ISBN: 0333196775

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Fortuna Books

$NZ 20.00 (approx. $US 14.69 )

SPARK, Muriel & STANFORD, Derek (Edited by)
Tibute to Wordsworth. A Miscellny of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death.

Imprint: Theodore Brun Limited, 1950
Edition: First Edition

Issued simultaneously with the trade edition, this is a Collector's Club deluxe edition, one of 200 numbered copies. Near fin in the oiginal bright red leather gilt, light rubbing to extremities. Spark's first book.

Stock number: 57754.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Collectors Treasury

$US 100.00

Spark, Muriel
Voices at Play

Imprint: Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1966
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback

1st Penguin edition, 188 pages, cover photograph by robert Croxford, pages tanned, covers worn and chipped, ex library with usual signs., Acceptable

Stock number: 164419.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Gravity Books

£ 3.96 (approx. $US 5.15 )