The Magnificent Spinster

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED 384 pages. Octavo {21.5cm] Cream colored boards thirdbound in maroon cloth spine. Spine is slightly rolled and is lightly bumped at the head and tail. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page in black pen: "For ----- / May Sarton." Red publisher's topstain. Dust Jacket slightly rubbed at extremities. Upper corner of the front inside flap has been price clipped. From Publisher: In May Sarton's most ambitious novel to date, she explores the realities and reverberations of a fifty-year friendship between two remarkable women that ended with the death of Jane Reid. It is relived because Cam, in her 70's felt compelled to celebrate "the magnificent spinster" in a novel.