Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man

London, Secker & Warburg, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of the best known novel of English author and academic Sir Malcolm Bradbury. The first edition, first impression of this novel, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The dust wrapper depicts Francisco Goya's 'Dog Buried in Sand&apos.Bradbury's 'campus novel' offers a satire of academic life in the British universities established in the 1960s.The novel follows Howard Kirk, a lecturer in sociology at the local university, and his relationship with his wife, Barbara. In the work, Bradbury paints a vivid picture of the permissive society of the early 1970s. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor shelf wear to back strip tail, with light spotting to fore edge of text block. Dust wrapper in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Fine.

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