Lucky Jim
by Amis Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz, 1953. This is the first edition and first printing of a classic Kingsley Amis novel. Overall the book is in fair to good condition. Corners are somewhat bumped, more so to top corner of front board. Ex W.H. Smith lending library copy with their bookplates neatly pasted in to front fixed endpaper. Ex libris bookplate of Patrick Downing to ffep neatly pasted in. Slight lean to spine. Title lettering has faded somewhat but is still readable. Some small superficial marks to binding as can be seen in attached photographs. Spine cloth is slightly faded and spine tips softened. Top edge of pages is somewhat dusty as can be expected. Slight separation between ffep and title pages but still holding well. All pages are present and correct and the book is still well bound. Very little evidence of any foxing, so clean and well preserved internally. TO SUMMARISE............. THIS IS A PRETTY DECENT COPY OF A BOOK THAT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY RARE TO FIND IN THE FIRST PRINTING AND CAN COST SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF POUNDS IN VERY GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION, MORESO WHEN COMPLETE WITH THE DUSTWRAPPER. First Edition. Fair to Good/No Jacket. FIRST IMPRESSION.
Synopsis
Penguin Modern Classics
Reviews
On Mar 6 2017, a reader said:
I read this book about 50 years ago and have always thought that it was a very fun read. Now I'm buying it for a couple of friends, because I'm sure that they will enjoy this classic also.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001490
- Title
- Lucky Jim
- Author
- Amis Kingsley
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1953
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About the Seller
The Rare Book Shelf
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Herefordshire
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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