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Take a girl like you Hardback - 1960

by Amis, Kingsley

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightly bound; sunning on endpapers, owner's inscription on front pastedown. A little foxing on edges.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A comic novel that follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family home in the North of England to a small town not far from London to teach primary school children. Jenny is a 'traditional' Northern working-class girl whose dusky beauty strikes people as being at odds with the old-fashioned values she has gained from her upbringing, not least the conviction of 'no sex before marriage'. A thread of the novel concerns the frustrations of the morally dubious Patrick Standish, a 30-year-old teacher at a local private secondary school and his attempts to seduce Jenny; all this occurs against a backdrop of Jenny's new teaching job, Patrick's work and his leisure time with flatmate and colleague Graham and their new acquaintance, the well-off and somewhat older man-about-town, Julian Ormerod.
Used - Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightl
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  • Title Take a girl like you
  • Author Amis, Kingsley
  • Binding hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightl
  • Pages 320
  • Publisher Victor Gollancz, London
  • Date 1960
  • Bookseller's Inventory # IYC44477

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