The Light in the Piazza
Heinemann, 1961. 8vo, red cloth, white titles, 100pp. First British Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (12s 6d net) with faint edge wear, toning to panels. Ownership signature, offsetting to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first British publication of Spencer, a novella of an American girl in Italy. A major publication by the Southern writer who expatriated to Europe. Dust jacket blurbs by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty. Dust jacket illustration by Dodie Masterman. Adapted into a 1962 film directed by Guy Green, starring Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton, and Yvette Mimieux. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
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