Success by Martin Amis - 1978

New York, NY: Harmony Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0224015710 . Cover Art; 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. "According to Amis, his father showed no interest in his work. "I can point out the exact place where he stopped and sent Money twirling through the air; that's where the character named Martin Amis comes in." "Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself," Kingsley complained. His first novel The Rachel Papers (1973) – written at Lemmons, the family home in north London – won the Somerset Maugham Award. The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager (which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) and his… Read More

lqq: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 224. 8vo. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library; glue residue to ffep, rubber stamp to a few pages, no other lib. markings; very good- in lightly shelfworn, very good dustjacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Third impression. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

London : Cape, 1978. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 224 pages; Physical description: 224p. ; 21cm. Summary: Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers - one ""a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude,"" the other a ""bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"" - in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry. Genre: English fiction -- Novel.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 224 pages, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Unclipped dust jacket has light fade to spine. Record # 900079

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape Ltd. Previous owner's name dated 1978 on the front free endpaper, otherwise the book is fine. The original, unclipped dust jacket has very slight sunning to the spine, otherwise fine, protected by a clear, removable cover. A nice copy of the author's third book. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1978.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Ex-Public Library.] VG-/VG-. Library's black ink oblong stamps (2 each) to both the front and rear pastedowns with both the front and rear free endpapers glued to same and obscuring the legibility of their lettering,a subsequent owner's handwritten pair of blue ink initials above the 'M' of Martin on the title page which also has a black ink alpha-numerical library number to its reverse,no other library notation or stamps present, and the dw/dj has a price-clip.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, wrap-around red background,with capitalised yellow-lettered title and capitalised,black-lettered author's name to front panel of dw/dj,spine/backstrip with minimal fade and similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front and publisher's red+black lettered+illustrated colophon,to foot of same,rear panel with white single line ruled border to author's b/w photographic side profile portrait and his capitalised,black-lettered name below it. Some minimal shelf-wear of rubbing+miniscule chipping… Read More

Harmony Books, 1987-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!