Spinster

  • 1959
By Ashton-Warner, Sylvia
1959. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

8vo, (vi), 242, (1) pp. Original quarter cloth with blue boards lettered in gilt, a few light marks to the backstrip. Original unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel faded, some worming, largely to the rear panel.

ß First US edition. Based on the New Zealand novelist s own experience of teaching Maori children. It was made into the film, Two Loves (1961), starring Shirley MacLaine.

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Title

Spinster

Author

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia

Condition

Unknown

Date

1959


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