Amis, Kingsley

One Fat Englishman

Kingsley Amis · 1986 · Rooke Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.38 | ¥4,852)

London, Gollancz, 1986. First edition. Cloth. This is a first edition copy of this work by Kingsley Amis. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher who wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry and various short stories, scripts and works of social...

I Like It Here

Kingsley Amis · 1958 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of this early novel by Kingsley Amis, a semi-autobiographical work set in Portugal. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'I Like It Here' is a loo...

Five Works of Science Fiction

D. F. Jones; Kingsley Amis; Robert Conquest; Mark Clifton; Dave Wallis; Constantine Fitz Gibbon · 1962 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Pan Books Ltd, 1962-1968 . Paperback. Five early paperback editions of these works of science fiction from the 1960s. Five Works of Science Fiction.Early paperback editions published by Pan Books Ltd. Includes the following works. When the Kissing Had to Stop by Cons...

I Want It Now

Kingsley Amis · 1968 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1968 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Kingsley Amis's later novel with the original publisher's dust wrapper. First edition of I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis in the original publisher's binding and dust wrapper.The dust wrapper...

The James Bond Dossier

Kingsley Amis · 1965 · Rooke Books

£840.00 (€1,006.86 | $1,109.69 | ¥177,204)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A fine, signed copy of Kingsley Amis' analysis of the James Bond Novels. Signed by Kingsley Amis to a tipped in bookplate to the recto of front free endpaper: 'Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society&apos. &a...

The Pleasure of Poetry

Kingsley Amis · 1990 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Cassell, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry with a loosely inserted letter signed by author Kingsley Amis. First edition, first impression. Contains a loosely inserted note addressed to a 'Mr Harvey' on Jonathan Clowes ...

A Look Round the Estate

Kingsley Amis · 1967 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by noted author Kingsley Amis. In the original unclipped dustwrapper designed by Leigh Taylor. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis's first n...

The Compleat Imbiber

Cyril Ray [ed.]; Kingsley Amis; Laurie Lee; Diana Athill; J. B. Priestley; V. S. Pritchett et al · 1957 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Vista Books; Putnam; Collins; Hutchinson; Beaumont Books, 1957. First edition. Cloth. Charmingly illustrated throughout, present here are the first editions of twelve volumes of Cyril Ray's anthology about the pleasures of drinking. Present here are twelve volumes...

Take a Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis · 1960 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this comic novel by Kingsley Amis, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. A comic novel, following a young woman named Jenny Bunn who has moved from her family home in the North...

Difficulties with Girls

Kingsley Amis · 1988 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg, Hutchinson , 1988 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Kingsley Amis's many novels, signed by the author. First edition of Difficulties With Girls by Kingsley Amis in the original publisher's cloth binding and...

The James Bond Dossier

Kingsley Amis · 1965 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Kingsley Amis's critical study of 007, in the attractive publisher's original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of Kingsley Amis's critical analysis of the James Bo...

Take a Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis · 1960 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this popular early novel by Kingsley Amis. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Take a Girl Like You' follows the story of Jenny Bunn and her struggle...

Works of Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis; Eric Jacobs; Neil Powell · 1984 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London; New York, Hutchinson; Macmillan; Hodder & Stoughton,; Viking; Summit Books, 1984-2007 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Ten volumes of work by and on Kingsley Amis, being a mixture of novels and memoirs of his life. A collection of ten works by Kingsley Amis. Kings...

Collected Poems 1944-1979

Kingsley Amis · 1980 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York, The Viking Press, 1980. Paperback. A scarce copy of the US proof copy for this collection of Amis's poetical works. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis's first novel Lucky Jim was an immediate success and marked the beginni...

Jake&Apos;S Thing

Kingsley Amis · 1979 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

New York, The Viking Press, 1979. Paperback. A scarce proof copy of this novel by noted author Kingsley Amis. Dated for release May 1979 on the front of the wrap. First published in the UK the previous year. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Amis...

The Evans Country

Kingsley Amis · 1962 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Oxford, Fantasy Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. The uncommon first edition of this collection of poems by Kingsley Amis. An uncommon copy of this collection of six poems. With the personal bookplate of noted Maltese author and biographer Peter Apap Bologna. Bologna is p...

Dear Illusion

Kingsley Amis · 1972 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Covent Garden Press Limited, 1972. Paperback. A limited edition copy of this short story, signed by Amis to the colophon. Limited edition of six hundred copies, of which one hundred are signed. This is number forty two. In this short story, Amis tells the story of an a...

The Anti-Death League

Kingsley Amis · 1966 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this novel by Kingsley Amis. With a tipped in signature of the author to the title page. The first edition of this work. Held in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Critically, this intellectual thr...

On Drink

Kingsley Amis · 1973 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition. Hardback. A witty, informative, handbook for the amateur and professional drinker. The work looks into alcoholic literature and provides drink recipes. The first U.S edition of this work. With a publisher's note no...

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis · 1977 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

New York, Viking Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first U.S edition of this alternative history novel by Kingsley Amis. Bookplate to the front pastedown for Rolland L Comstock, a successful attorney from Missouri and renowned book collector. Comstock had a two-story librar...