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  • Seller image for Jake's Thing for sale by BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books

    Amis, Kingsley; Blake, Quentin (jacket illus.)

    Published by Hutchinson of London, London, 1978

    Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.

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    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition (true first). Small quarto in yellow illus jacket; 284 pages; 23 cm. "In this hilarious, outrageous and wickedly funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis does not pull any punches, but takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style." ?Publisher. Contents: This is it. The farting ploughboy. Domestic interior. Thunderball. Business-head and Carter-face. Focusing session. Are you disturbed? Informal basis. Guilt and shame. Wanker! Academic study. I have heard of your paintings too. Can I take you out to dinner? Sexual act. At Mr Shyster's. At Mr Shyster's (continued). Exposing Ed. Eve's thing. That lazy feeling. Girls everywhere. I can help you. Phallus's end. Extreme bourgeois puritan conventionality. Something I want to show you. Increased insight. What, and miss television? Smudger turns up trumps. Physical after all. Notes: Novel. // Association copy with stamp of Shakespeare & Co (Paris) to title page. Near fine with extremely slight roll and small faint stain tocopyright page; in a near fine jacket (not price-clipped), now in archival mylar. Bookseller stamp of Shakespeare & Co (Paris) to title page.