Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book. Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. Gift inscription dated year of publication.īook fine mild soiling, trace of edge-wear with small bit of expert repair to verso of bright near-fine dust jacket. This "brilliantly and preposterously funny book" remains Amis' best known novel ( Guardian). Hailed as "one of the four or five funniest comic novels written in this century," Lucky Jim is Kingsley Amis' first novel, a biting satire that "brought its author fame as one of Britain's Angry Young Men." To writer Paul Fussell, Amis stood as one of his generation's finest satirists "and belonged in 'the company of Swift, Pope, Twain, Flaubert and Mencken" ( New York Times). $7200.įirst edition of Amis' first and most famous novel-"brilliantly and preposterously funny" (Guardian), in original dust jacket. Octavo, original green paper boards, original dust jacket. 
"ONE OF THE FOUR OR FIVE FUNNIEST COMIC NOVELS WRITTEN IN THIS CENTURY": FIRST EDITION OF KINGSLEY AMIS' FIRST NOVEL, LUCKY JIMĪMIS, Kingsley.
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