Ending Up
by AMIS Kingsley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224009885
- ISBN 13
- 9780224009881
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974 tidy copy, extreme tail of spine only is sunned, St John & Red Cross Hospital Library plate to fep and tidy remains of a card pocket to rear fep otherwise unmarked, top edge dusting faded, closed fore edge foxed, unclipped DW under plastic sleeve has lightly sunned spine and is slightly shorter than the boards by about 1mm.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
In Kingsley Amis' Ending Up, we meet the inhabitants of Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, a gloomy isolated house occupied by a group of old folks thrown together by fate and a lack of options. Overcome with tedium and decay of aging, the cottagers turn to malice to amuse themselves and keep their spirits up. When the grandchildren arrive to do their duty on Christmas Day, the festivities degenerate into an unforeseen riot.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013177
- Title
- Ending Up
- Author
- AMIS Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224009885
- ISBN 13
- 9780224009881
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- British Modern Fiction First Edition Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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