Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of London Fields by Martin Amis protected in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, and strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one bumped corner. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s name and an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price on the front flap, mild surface wear and a worn cover design as issued. Price-clipped dust jacket with barcode and 1/99 date on the rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap with some surface wear.
London Fields is Amis’s murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
