THE VORTEX

First edition, first printing. The publisher's retained copy. Original cream cloth with red printed label to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with some offsetting to the free endpapers, spotted to the text block edges and with the publisher's "File Copy" stamp to the front pastedown are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original dustwrapper which has a tiny closed tear to the rear panel and with the publisher's "File Copy" stamp at the base of the upper panel.

Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz.