AMIS, Kingsley. A Case of Samples. Poems 1946-1956. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1956. 8°. Original cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Anthony in all affection, Kingsley”, with the author’s printed name on the title scored through and replaced in autograph. In addition, there is an autograph transcription of Amis’s poem “The English Novel, 1740-1820” on the front free endpaper with the following gloss: “(I would have given a lot to have been able to bring out properly the pun in line 4 – based on one of the most extraordinary textual coincidences in all our literature: but the task proved too difficult. K.A.)”