SPACE RELATIONS. A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt is bright and fresh. The contents, with some spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£2.50 to the upper front flap). Scarce.

The first of two novels by Donald Barr, published in the final year of the author's tenure as headmaster of the Dalton School, New York. An unsettling and depraved work of space opera science fiction about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in sex slavery. First published in America by Charterhouse in September 1973, this first British edition followed a few months later.