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Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils – SIGNED – First UK Edition 1986
£175.00
A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1986. A fine book signed by the author to the title page. In a like, unclipped wrapper with only slight bumping to the spine tips. A superb copy.
The plot centres on Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, who returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, the sometime girlfriend of Weaver’s old acquaintance Peter Thomas. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, Amis’s son (Martin Amis) describes the book as his father’s masterpiece.
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A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1986. A fine book signed by the author to the title page. In a like, unclipped wrapper with only slight bumping to the spine tips. A superb copy.
The plot centres on Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, who returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, the sometime girlfriend of Weaver’s old acquaintance Peter Thomas. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, Amis’s son (Martin Amis) describes the book as his father’s masterpiece.
