David Lodge — The British Museum Is Falling Down

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1965 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of David Lodge's comical third novel, set in the London of the Swinging Sixties. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Lodge's comic novel is about a poor English student who, rather than writing his thesis, regularly finds himself distracted in the reading room of the British Museum. He encounters a number of weird characters, and in some aspects mirrors Joyce's 'Ulysses&apos.A somewhat uncommon early novel from the English author and literary critic.With a contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1965. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper. Significant sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with small closed tear to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.