1988 Difficulties With Girls

Name: 1988 Kingsley Amis Difficulties With Girls Signed Dustwrapper First Ed
SKU: 588K21
Price: 60 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London Hutchinson

Size: 9" by 5.5" Pagination: 276pp.

The first edition of this novel, signed by Kingsley Amis to the title page.

£60.00

weight: 0.75kgs / stock code: 588K21

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Description

First Edition, Signed, With Dustwrapper

In the original unclipped dustwrapper designed by Patrick McCreeth. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis's first novel Lucky Jim was an immediate success and marked the beginning of a long career in writing. He wrote more than 40 books, including 20 novels and many volumes of poetry. In 2008, The Times ranked Amis 13th on their list of the top fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Difficulties With Girls is Amis's nineteenth novel and is the sequel to Take a Girl Like You, which was published thirty years earlier.

Condition

In a blue cloth binding in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally in excellent condition with some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dustwrapper is in excellent condition, with some shelfwear to the extremities including some bumping to the head and tail of the spine.Small closed tear to rear flyleaf. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Ink inscription dated 'Christmas 88' to front blank. Signed by Amis to the title page.

Overall: Fine

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