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AMIS, Kingsley. The Egyptologists. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. 8°. Half title. Original grey cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Jan Pienkowski with price of 18s. unclipped. FIRST EDITION, with the author’s printed name on the title scored through and replaced in autograph. With 7 other books by the same author, namely The Anti-Death League (1966), I Want It Now (1968), The Green Man (1969), Girl, 20 (1971), The Riverside Villas Murder (1973, which the author describes as "A strange tale of blood and sex"), Ending Up (1974) and The Alteration (1976), all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, SIGNED OR INSCRIBED by the author.
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