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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, with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Amis's debut novel about college professor Jim Dixon. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award and was listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels by Time Magazine.

Kingsley Amis's first novel, 'Lucky Jim', is a comic sensation that paints a brilliant picture of academic life in post-war Britain. Following Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer, Amis illustrates a satirical journey through university pedantry and the inherent absurdities.

First edition has a red cloth cover with gilt lettering on the spine.