Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (145 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.36.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.57.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.96.

Paperback. Condition: New. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world" at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance - or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association's pompous director steals Fleur's manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Orange Cloth, 222Pages. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, Lightly Browned On Top Edges But Otherwise Unmarked, Undamaged. Dustjacket Is Price-Clipped, Otherwise "Vg". Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. b>Author: /b>Spark, Muriel First edition hardback in good used condition. Edges may be foxed/dusty. Â.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean unmarked larger than normal print , crease down entire front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Front flap is creased.

Constable. London. 1994. First edition, thus. Large 8vo hardback with DW. Ownership name to half-title page. Pages browned and lightly foxed otherwise a lovely clean copy in a slightly worn wrapper.

Pocket pb. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 624 pages.

proof copy 222pp VG (in paper wrappers,sl.soiled w.stains to cover,mod.sunned,sl.wear and creasing to extrems.,edges sl.foxed,sl.cocked).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A crisp, bright copy. Publisher's original price of $12.95 intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 217 pages. Spark's sixteenth novel follows aspiring writer Fleur Talbot as she navigates a peculiar autobiographical fiction project and a literary society full of secrets and sabotage. Often seen as a comic reflection on the art of fiction itself, the novel blends metafiction and social satire with Spark's trademark precision and wit. Shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize.

First edition. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this charming novel filled with autobiographical references of the author, Scottish writer Muriel Spark. First edition. Set in London, Fleur Talbot is struggling to complete her first novel. She manages to secure a job working for Sir Quentin Oliver as secretary to his Autobiographical Association, whose eccentric members are seeking to write their memoirs. As she assists them, Fleur begins to notice that parts of her novel start to occur in real life. Written by Dame Muriel Sarah Spark, a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. In the original full orange cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities and a small mark to the front board. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear to the extremities and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Front endpaper has been neatly removed. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Spark began writing seriously, under her married name, after World War II, beginning with poetry and literary criticism. In 1947 she became editor of the Poetry Review. This position made Spark one of the only female editors of the time. Spark left the Poetry Review in 1948. In 1953 Muriel Spark was baptized in the Church of England but in 1954 she decided to join the Roman Catholic Church, which she considered crucial in her development toward becoming a novelist. Penelope Fitzgerald, a fellow novelist and contemporary of Spark, wrote that Spark "had pointed out that it wasn't until she became a Roman Catholic . That she was able to see human existence as a whole, as a novelist needs to do". In an interview with John Tusa on BBC Radio 4, she said of her conversion and its effect on her writing that she "was just a little worried, tentative. Would it be right, would it not be right? Can I write a novel about that would it be foolish, wouldn't it be? And somehow with my religion whether one has anything to do with the other, I don't know but it does seem so, that I just gained confidence." Graham Greene, Gabriel Fielding and Evelyn Waugh supported her in her decision. " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The Bodily Head, 1981. Near fine in d/w.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. Triad Granada - 1st. 1981 : Muriel Spark - tb IN-8R6W-ZYXN Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Cloth with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition - First Printing. 221 pag. not price-clipped.

Condition: Good. This is an audio book on CDs. Former Library Copy. Clamshell Case CDs are in Good to Very Good Condition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Small stain to foredge of front free endpaper, remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Minus. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complate number line) of Vol. 2 of Spark's novels. SIGNED by author on a bookplate on half-title page (signature). DJ spine sunned. $25.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Laid-in is a photocopy of thank you letter from author's secretary saying that Ms. Spark has signed the bookplates. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned New Directions 1st Printing softcover copy of Sparks "Not To Disturb"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.