Twentieth Century Literature
SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY 172. AMIS, Kingsley LUCKY JIM Dou- bleday, 1954.
First US edition. Original rust cloth let- tered in white to the spine, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Edward Go- rey, signed by Gorey to the rear flap. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with light tanning to the spine and dustiness to lower cover. [45214] £850 The author’s first book and one of the most significant post-war novels, which “tests privilege and phoney upper-class values... makes little dents in the smug fabric of hypocritical, humbugging, class-bound British society... and is a voice that a smug stable society finds it con- venient to ignore” (Burgess). “Lucky Jim gave rise to much of the angry-young-man fiction that followed, but it never met its equal.” - Lev Grossman (All-Time 100 Novels). Burgess 99 Novels
174. CHRISTIE, Agatha THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY Collins, 1931. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, lettering in black. A near fine copy, with a trace of wear to the spine ends and a cou - ple of light splashes to the rear board but a generally bright copy. [45789] £1,850 One of the scarcest titles from the thir- ties.
173. AMIS, Kingsley THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER Cape, 1965. First edition. Black boards with gilt let- tering on the spine, in a decorative dust- wrapper, designed by Jan Pienkowski with vignettes after Richard Chopping from the dustwrappers of the James Bond books. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with minor scuffs to the spine ends and slight browning to the spine. [46288] £175 In this dossier Kingsley Amis looks at the life and career of James Bond.
175. CHRISTIE, Agatha TO- WARDS ZERO Collins, 1944. First edition. Orange cloth with black lettering in a pictorial dust- wrapper. A near fine copy with a slightly cocked spine, in a very good dustwrapper with wear to the corners and spine ends. [45786] £950
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