The Biographer's Moustache by Kingsley Amis
$18.00
Condition Used hardcover in dust jacket Read full condition
Used hardcover in dust jacket. Visible rubbing and scattered marks to the jacket, wear to the edges and spine ends, and age-toned pages.
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About this book
Writer Gordon Scott-Thompson accepts a commission to write the life of novelist Jimmie Fane. The assignment becomes a comedy of literary vanity, social prejudice and awkward attraction when the biographer encounters his subject's dislikes and his wife Joanna.
Condition: Used hardcover in dust jacket. Visible rubbing and scattered marks to the jacket, wear to the edges and spine ends, and age-toned pages.
Book details
- Author: Kingsley Amis
- Publisher: Flamingo
- Publication: 1995
- Edition / printing: First edition, first printing; number line includes 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Pagination: 282 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780002253307
- ISBN-10: 0002253305
Published by Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins. Printed in Great Britain. The supplied photographs show the cover and copyright page only; the remaining pages and jacket flaps have not been checked.
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