Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper designed by Colin Andrews. A first edition of Kingsley Amis' only foray into supernatural horror. Internally, there are a few spots to the bottom of the front wrap. In the publisher's original cloth binding. The novel reflects Amis's willingness to experiment with genre novels, while displaying many of the characteristics of his conventional novels, both in superficial aspects such as fogeyishness and problems with alcohol, and in more substantive aspects such as a self-reflective observation of human cruelty and selfishness in everyday relations.?First edition.With the original unclipped dustwraper.?A very smart copy of this work. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer described The Green Man as 'three genres of novel in one' -? ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel. The first edition of Kingsley Amis' first and only foray into supernatural writing. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.Ĭloth. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in very good condition with marks to the front cover and a small nick to the top edge of the front cover. The top edge fully retains its original black tint. The end papers and pages are free from marks, tears or inscriptions. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering in the spine bright. A First Edition, First Impression in near fine condition. The story is set in and around The Green Man, an inn between London and Cambridge owned by Maurice Allington and haunted by its 17th-century owner, Thomas Underhill, who dabbled in the occult and was associated with two unsolved murders. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis, Jonathan Cape, 1969, First Edition, First Impression Adapted in 1990 by the BBC into a three-part TV serial starring Albert Finney, this book is often described as 'three genres of novel in one': ghost story, moral fable and comic novel.

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis