Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
Penguin Modern Classics
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On Mar 6, 2017, Anonymous said
I read this book about 50 years ago and have always thought that it was a very fun read. Now I'm buying it for a couple of friends, because I'm sure that they will enjoy this classic also.
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Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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$955.00
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lucky Jim
by AMIS, Kingsley (1922-1995)
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- Used - Fine-
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- Fine-
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- First Printing
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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$724.00
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First American Edition of Amis's first book, "the quintessential campus novel," in the superb Edward Gorey dust jacket, one of his first and finest. 8vo: 256pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in white, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.50. About Fine (end leaves lightly offset), apparently unread, jacket about Fine (spine… Read more about this item Item Price
$724.00
Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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$805.00
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lightly toned at the spine and back panel, a small circular stain on the "L" in "Lucky". Red buckram with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Amis's debut novel about college professor… Read more about this item Item Price
$805.00
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Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1953
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$400.00
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth shows small white stain to cover, fading at spine and top edge of rear board. Spine lettering dulled. Light lean to spine. Foxing to pages, mostly at prelims, terminals and edge of page block. First edition. Item Price
$400.00
Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics, 14)
by AMIS, Kingsley
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 2000
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780141182599
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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$20.00
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(New York): Penguin Books, 2000. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Introduction by David Lodge. Spine creased, edges rubbed, near fine. Item Price
$20.00
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Lucky Jim - Rebound in green leather
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used
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- 1953
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, GBR
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$951.38
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London: Gollancz, 1953. A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1953. A very good book, bound in green leather lettered gilt to the spine. The text block is slightly toned but clean within. Small black mark to the foot of the pages. Five raised bands to the spine. The Author's first novel. Item Price
$951.38
Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1961
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- Mass Market Paperback
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- 9780140016482
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Vars, Ontario, CAN
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$6.11
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Penguin UK. Very Good+. 1961. Mass Market Paperback. 0140016481 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition. A solid binding with clean and unmarked pages and an uncreased spine. A small dent to the front cover middle area. "First published in 1954, this novel tells the story of Jim Dixon - lower middle-class anti-hero - charting his… Read more about this item Item Price
$6.11
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Lucky Jim; A Novel
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- Advance Review Copy
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- 1954
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- Cloth
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- 1
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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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$975.00
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. Advance Review Copy. Cloth. Very good/near fine. First American edition of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, with advance review card laid in.. Octavo, 256pp. Brown cloth, title in white on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest on front pastedown endpaper, along with… Read more about this item Item Price
$975.00
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Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1953
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- 1
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$5,000.00
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing of the author's best-known work. Bound in publisher's original green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, slight area of sunning to foot, and slight discoloration to rear cover. Former owner name to front free endpaper, pages tanned… Read more about this item Item Price
$5,000.00
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Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1954
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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$900.00
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New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1954. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, the usual toning at end pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket, light wear at spine ends, 1/4" closed tear bottom edge fron panel. The author's first novel, with dust jacket design by Edward Gorey. A classic of 20th c. British literature. Basis for the 1957 film directed… Read more about this item Item Price
$900.00
Lucky Jim
by Amis Kingsley
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- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1953
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- 1
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Herefordshire, GBR
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$234.99
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London, United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz, 1953. This is the first edition and first printing of a classic Kingsley Amis novel. Overall the book is in fair to good condition. Corners are somewhat bumped, more so to top corner of front board. Ex W.H. Smith lending library copy with their bookplates neatly pasted in to front fixed endpaper. Ex libris bookplate… Read more about this item Item Price
$234.99
Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Paperback
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- 9780141182599
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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$2.70
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Paperback. Acceptable. Item Price
$2.70
Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Good
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- Paperback
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- 9780141182599
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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$2.70
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Paperback. Good. Item Price
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Lucky Jim.
by AMIS, Kingsley.
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London, London, GBR
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$12,050.75
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London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. . First edition, signed by the author and dated February 1954 on upper endpaper; 8vo; publisher's boards, very slight fading to spine, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, light toning to head of rear panel, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short nick with creasing to lower corner of upper panel, some very light… Read more about this item Item Price
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LUCKY JIM
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Southampton, New York, USA
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$75.00
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Gollancz. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, Twentieth Printing (Sept 1957). Published by Victor Gollancz, 1954. Octavo. Green boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and small nicks. A nice… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Lucky Jim
by AMIS Kingsley
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1953
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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$7,200.00
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1953. First Edition . AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. Octavo, original green paper boards, original dust jacket. $7200.First edition of Amis' first and most famous novel""brilliantly and preposterously funny"" (Guardian), in original dust jacket.Hailed as ""one of the four or five funniest comic novels written in this century,"" Lucky Jim is Kingsley Amis' first novel, a… Read more about this item Item Price
$7,200.00
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1954
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Spring Branch, Texas, USA
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$500.00
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VG/G Jacket in mylar. 1st US edition. Jacket browning along spine and rear panel, browning to hinging of book Item Price
$500.00
Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140016482
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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$6.53
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Penguin Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
$6.53
Lucky Jim
by Amis, Kingsley
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- Used - Good
- ISBN
- 9780140016482
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Frederick, Maryland, USA
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$5.62
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Penguin Books. Used - Good. Good condition. (adventure, juvenile fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Item Price
$5.62
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
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- Used - Acceptable
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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$3.63
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Penguin Books Ltd., 1969. Paperback. Acceptable. 1969. Reprinted. 250 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Slight cracking to binding, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to reverse covers. Pencil inscription and sticker to front reverse cover and first page. Markings to some pages. Paper cover has moderate edgewear with small tears and creasing. Slight curling… Read more about this item Item Price
$3.63