Lucky Jim

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed by Edward Gorey on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned and soiled, a few chips at the edges, stain at the front panel. Red buckram, rubbed and slightly frayed at the edges and corners,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First American Edition of Amis's first book, "the quintessential campus novel," in the superb Edward Gorey dust jacket, one of his first and finest. 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in white, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. About Fine (end leaves lightly offset), apparently unread, jacket about Fine (spine… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lightly toned at the spine and back panel, a small circular stain on the "L" in "Lucky". Red buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Amis's debut novel about college professor… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth shows small white stain to cover, fading at spine and top edge of rear board. Spine lettering dulled. Light lean to spine. Foxing to pages, mostly at prelims, terminals and edge of page block. First edition.

(New York): Penguin Books, 2000. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Introduction by David Lodge. Spine creased, edges rubbed, near fine.

London: Gollancz, 1953. A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1953. A very good book, bound in green leather lettered gilt to the spine. The text block is slightly toned but clean within. Small black mark to the foot of the pages. Five raised bands to the spine. The Author's first novel.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. Advance Review Copy. Cloth. Very good/near fine. First American edition of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, with advance review card laid in.. Octavo, 256pp. Brown cloth, title in white on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest on front pastedown endpaper, along with… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing of the author's best-known work. Bound in publisher's original green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, slight area of sunning to foot, and slight discoloration to rear cover. Former owner name to front free endpaper, pages tanned… Read more 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… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Good.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. . First edition, signed by the author and dated February 1954 on upper endpaper; 8vo; publisher's boards, very slight fading to spine, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, light toning to head of rear panel, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short nick with creasing to lower corner of upper panel, some very light… Read more about this item

1953. First Edition . AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. Octavo, original green paper boards, original dust jacket. $7200.First edition of Amis' first and most famous novel—""brilliantly and preposterously funny"" (Guardian), in original dust jacket.Hailed as ""one of the four or five funniest comic novels written in this century,"" Lucky Jim is Kingsley Amis' first novel, a… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 1976 A very good unmarked reprint copy.

Penguin Books. Used - Good. Good condition. (adventure, juvenile fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Penguin Books Ltd., 1969. Paperback. Acceptable. 1969. Reprinted. 250 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to reverse covers. Pencil inscription and sticker to front reverse cover and first page. Markings to some pages. Paper cover has moderate edgewear with small tears and creasing. Slight curling… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1963. Paperback. Good. 1963. 250 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin Books, 1968. Paperback. Good. 1968. 250 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A sound first American edition copy, lacking its jacket, of Amis' first novel, an undisputed high point of comedic fiction. Octavo, 8.5 x 5.75 in. 256pp. Reddish-brown cloth boards, off-white spine lettering. Boards lightly rubbed, with a touch of fraying to cloth at head of spine. Former… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First edition of this hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, a classic of postwar English literature. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box.