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First UK edition, first impression, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper with a drawing of a Campbell's Pea Soup can, "To Robert F, Much love, Andy Warhol, London 1975". The recipient, Robert Fraser, was a London art dealer and was part of the 'Swinging Sixties' scene. He was close to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and represented the leading pop and op artists of the period, including Warhol. He was arrested along with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger at a party in Richards's house for drug possession, for which he received a six-month prison sentence. This event was immortalized by Richard Hamilton's artwork Swinging London '67. This copy was given by Fraser to Jaine Wilson and comes with a letter of provenance from her. Warhol's loosely written autobiography was first published in New York by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich the same year. Octavo. Original pale green cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine bumped; unclipped dust jacket with light damp staining to top edge: a very good copy in like jacket.