The Only Problem.

SPARK, Muriel:

Published by Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library: Signed First edition, 1984

About this Item

8vo., [xvi], 177pp., with fine colour illustrations by Vivienne Flesher, silk ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in fine quality full red leather, covers blocked with ornate gilt designs, spine gilt decorated in compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. A very fine bright clean copy. This LIMITED FIRST EDITION of THE ONLY PROBLEM, is the true first edition of the book and precedes the trade edition, has been Privately Printed, and personally SIGNED by Muriel Spark exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. A total of 201 various classic First Editions by various authors were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. These books are highly collectible and are no longer available directly from the publisher. Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. In 2008, the Times newspaper named Spark as No. 8 in its list of 'the 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. A wealthy young millionaire, Harvey Gotham, is devoted to his study of the book of Job and a production of a monograph on the subject. But life intervenes when his wife, whom he left but still loves, is accused of being a terrorist. The police become Harvey's constant companions, not convinced of his un-involvement. Thus the one studying the suffering Job becomes, during the process, a sufferer himself. But he is nothing like Job, and his sufferings don't approach Job's!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Only Problem.
• Publisher: Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library: Signed First edition
• Publication Date: 1984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Special Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Seventeenth Century Plays
  • Signed First Editions
  • Franklin Library