AMIS (KINGSLEY) Bright November, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO HIS PARE...

AMIS (KINGSLEY) Bright November, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO HIS PARENTS on front free endpaper ('To Mum and Dad/ their son's first book/ with love and tenderness/ Kinglsey ('Pud') September '47'), pages slightly crinkled, publisher's black boards (edges worn, spine ends chipped), dust jacket priced 10/6 on front flap (browning to edges and spine, upper joint split), preserved in cloth chemise within black morocco-backed solander box with gilt lettered spine, 8vo, Fortune Press, 1943 Footnotes: KINGSLEY AMIS'S FIRST BOOK, PROUDLY INSCRIBED TO HIS PARENTS IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Bright November contains thirty-one poems, mostly written during wartime, and was published in September 1947 with the help and encouragement of his friend Philip Larkin. Although Amis went on to find fame as a novelist with Lucky Jim, he did not stop writing verse, and with Larkin joined the poetic group 'The Movement', through which he published his poems. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing