Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis [SIGNED]

Wendy Cope

ISBN 10: 0571202500 / ISBN 13: 9780571202508

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1999

About this Item

Shelf wear and light crease to front cover, two pages have had the top corner folded, light browning to page edges and margins. Inscribed and signed by the author to the title page: 'Charlotte, Best wishes, Wend Cope.'. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £12.00; Oceania £13.00; Rest of World £13.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.5 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm).

Seller Inventory # 1143E008

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571202500
• ISBN 13: 9780571202508
• Binding: Paperback. Printed pages: 61
• Edition: 1st Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Copies & Rarities
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redouble') When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.

About the Author

Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008.