8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, 256pp. Stated fifteenth impression, January 1956. Unclipped dust jacket (12/6 net) with toning to panels light chips to edges. Ownership signature, heavy toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An early edition of the first novel by Amis, a biting comedy of the humiliations of a medieval history professor in provincial England. Dedicated to Philip Larkin. A very good copy in mylar.