The Girl of Slender Means
Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. 8vo, red cloth, silver and green titles, 176pp. First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) moderately toned to panels. Ownership signature, faint tape residue marks to endpapers, faint tape impression to board edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The seventh published novel by Spark, concerning a fictional club in London during the final months of WWII, and the conversion of an anarchist intellectual turned Jesuit priest. One of Spark’s religiously tinted fictions, selected in Anthony Burgess’ 99 novels: The Best in English Since 1939. Dust jacket design and typography by George Salter. A very good copy in mylar.
Price: $35.00