AMIS, Kingsley. Jake’s Thing. London: Hutchinson, [1978]. 8°. Half title. Original dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket with illustration by Quentin Blake and with price unclipped. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Anthony. Terrific distance between the something that suffers and the mind that creates (TSE), Kingsley.” With 8 other books by the same author, namely Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980), Collected Short Stories (1980), the revised edition (1987), The Crime of the Century (1987, paperback), Difficulties with Girls (1988), The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990), We Are All Guilty (1991) and The Russian Girl (1992), all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS (except where indicated) AND INSCRIBED by the author.