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[AMIS, Kingsley]. Spectrum. A Spectator Miscellany. London: Longmans, [1956]. 8°. Original grey cloth, dust-jacket.. INSCRIBED BY KINGSLEY AMIS, “Anthony from Kingsley (a bit hard on L. Lee, perhaps), 1967.” This anthology contains 2 pieces by Amis, “Thomas the Rhymer” and “Is the Travel-Book Dead?”. With 12 other books edited by or with contributions from Kingsley Amis, namely Pick of Today’s Short Stories (London, 1956), G. K. Chesterton. Selected Stories (1972), The Lucifer Society (1972), Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man (1973), Where I Was Young (1976), Harold’s Years (1977, inscribed by Amis, “… Auberon Waugh was very shitty about this …”), The Faber Popular Reciter (1978), The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (1978), The Great British Songbook (1986, with autograph musical quotation by Amis), The Amis Anthology (1988), The Pleasure of Poetry (1990) and Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1990), all variously INSCRIBED by Kingsley Amis.
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