A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 by Kingsley Amis - 1957

Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Harcourt, Brace and Company 72pp. Pencil inscription "Ashley, from Harcourt Brace"on front endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked. DJ (not price-clipped) ltly edgeworn with a little loss top of spine. A large chunk has been torn off the top front but is present. Now mylar-protected.

London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1957. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, brilliant gilt-stamped cloth covers, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated Second Printing. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond being price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. 71 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Harcourt, Brace, 1957-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. ~Very Good. Good DJ. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. Second impression with light bumping and rubbing to corners and edges.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. hard cover with dustjacket. G/FR. Good book in fair price-clipped dust jacket with areas missing, staining, foxing and edge tears, bookseller�s stamp on front, foxing to pages. Name and date on front endpaper. Dust jacket protected with a removable plastic cover./Fair. 23 cm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition. Fine lacking the dustwrapper.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First UK Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a very good jacket. FFEP inscribed by two previous owners: author John Wain and author John Metcalf. Gold titling to front board. Jacket is showing some minor to moderate edgewear. Front jacket cover has a very faint circular stain (with no warping) at the bottom under the name Amis. Else, a very nice and tight copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 72 pages. Dust jacket prinetd in red and black over black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is clipped at bottom of front flap, with "$3.50" stamped at top. Jacket is rubbed with light shelfwear and some foxing to both recto and verso. Top edge of boards lightly sunned. Binding is sound. Light foxing to preliminaries.

Victor Gollancz, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. From the 1000+ volume private collection of well-known Australian poet and author Guy Weller all of which are listed or will soon be listed on this site. Includes many hardcover Collected Poems from sought-after 20th century poets from all countries. Search Mr Pickwick's store on this site under category Poetry, or else do a Keyword search for the special keyword '"pickwickpoems" to display these as an isolated group. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. DJ rubbed and chipped with tanned spine which has very minor loss to foot. Otherwise very tidy.. First Edition. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Cloth 8vo. First UK edition. 71 pp. A selection from the first 10 years of the author's verse. Light shelfwear. A sound very good or better copy in black cloth covers with slight dulling of spine lettering. The price-intact dustwrapper has some small chipping at the spine crown and minor wear to spine lettering. Nice copy overall.