Lot 8
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AMIS, Kingsley. A Frame of Mind. Eighteen Poems. [Reading:] “Printed in the School of Art, University of Reading,” 1953. 8°. List of subscribers, publisher’s slip loosely-inserted. Original plain parchment printed wrappers, modern box. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 38 OF 350 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Anthony, love from Kingsley”, with the author’s name scored through on the title and replaced in autograph. In addition, there is an autograph transcription of Amis’s poem “Sonnet from Orpheus” on the front free endpaper.
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AMIS, Kingsley. A Frame of Mind. Eighteen Poems. [Reading:] “Printed in the School of Art, University of Reading,” 1953. 8°. List of subscribers, publisher’s slip loosely-inserted. Original plain parchment printed wrappers, modern box. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 38 OF 350 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Anthony, love from Kingsley”, with the author’s name scored through on the title and replaced in autograph. In addition, there is an autograph transcription of Amis’s poem “Sonnet from Orpheus” on the front free endpaper.

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AMIS, Kingsley. A Frame of Mind. Eighteen Poems. [Reading:] “Printed in the School of Art, University of Reading,” 1953. 8°. List of subscribers, publisher’s slip loosely-inserted. Original plain parchment printed wrappers, modern box. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 38 OF 350 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Anthony, love from Kingsley”, with the author’s name scored through on the title and replaced in autograph. In addition, there is an autograph transcription of Amis’s poem “Sonnet from Orpheus” on the front free endpaper.
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