Jake's Thing

London: Hutchinson of London, 1978. First UK Edition (true first). Small quarto in yellow illus jacket; 284 pages; 23 cm 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. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780091343903, 0091343909

"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.