SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY
Lucky Jim
Doubleday, 1954.
First US edition. Original rust cloth lettered in white to the spine, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Edward Gorey, signed by Gorey to the rear flap. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with light tanning to the spine and dustiness to lower cover.
The author's first book and one of the most significant post-war novels, which "tests privilege and phoney upper-class values... makes little dents in the smug fabric of hypocritical, humbugging, class-bound British society... and is a voice that a smug stable society finds it convenient to ignore" (Burgess).
"Lucky Jim gave rise to much of the angry-young-man fiction that followed, but it never met its equal." - Lev Grossman (All-Time 100 Novels)
Burgess 99 Novels
Stock ID: 45214
