First edition of Amis’s first book and his tour de force.

8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper.  Wrapper with a small chip ant head of spine just affecting the letter “L” in Lucky, a couple of other small chips, small stain to spine and lower panel of wrapper, spine of wrapper slightly sunned, but a very good copy, nicer than usually found.

Lucky Jim is a 1957 British comedy film directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith