First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the extremities, the cloth bright and fresh, though the gilt has oxidised. The contents, with a previous owner's name to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper.
The author's second book and the basis for the 1961 Academy Award winning, J. Lee Thompson directed film starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.
Stock code: 28168
£40
London: Collins.
1957