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[email protected] shapero.com CONTENTS Fiction, Poetry & Prose 07 Children’s & Illustrated 39 Visual and Performing Arts 67 History & Natural History 77 Special Interest & Sports 91 6 Shapero Rare Books Fiction, Poetry & Prose A VERY ATTRacTIVE EDITION 1. AMIS, KINGSLEY. Bright November. 2. AUSTEN, JANE; A. WALLIS MILLS, ILLUSTRATOR. [Novels]. 6 vol. The Fortune Press, London, [1947]. in 10, ‘St. Martin’s Illustrated Library of Standard Authors’ series. Chatto & Windus, London, 1908-09. An excellent copy of the first edition of the author’s scarce first published work, in the first issue binding. Volume 1 (Pride and Prejudice) contains a general introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. “Throughout his career, Amis has been a poet devoted to use of traditional formal devices in poetry; his poems rhyme 8vo., colour frontispieces, colour plates and pictorial endpapers by A. Wallis Mills, and scan, and he makes good use of terza rima and challenging a couple of hinges starting to crack but still sound, publisher’s green cloth, gilt, oval colour illustration mounted as locket on upper covers, a little rubbed at forms likes the villanelle. Sometimes critics claim membership extremities, spines very slightly faded, a few small spots to upper cover of for him in “The Movement,” a postwar trend in English poetry Northanger Abbey, otherwise a very good-plus set. that might best be defined as anti-Modernist, anti-Romantic, Gilson E117. dedicated to clarity of thought and feeling and a return to the main lines of English verse.” (Understanding Kingsley Amis, £1,200 [ref: 96547] Merritt Moseley, 1993).