London, Secker & Warburg, 1959
First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the author's first book.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE, author and academic, he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre. Bradbury drew on his career as a University Lecturer, at Hull, Birmingham and from 1965, the new University of East Anglia where, in 1970, he became professor of American studies; he was to remain in Norwich for the rest of his life.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped printed dustjacket, tanning to top edge, spine and flap folds, dust-soiling to rear panel, slight chipping to head of spine, else very good.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE, author and academic, he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre. Bradbury drew on his career as a University Lecturer, at Hull, Birmingham and from 1965, the new University of East Anglia where, in 1970, he became professor of American studies; he was to remain in Norwich for the rest of his life.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped printed dustjacket, tanning to top edge, spine and flap folds, dust-soiling to rear panel, slight chipping to head of spine, else very good.
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