First UK edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Nigel Hills illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a little toning to the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the price-clipped dustwrapper, which is otherwise without fading, loss, or tears.
The author's debut novel. First published in 1950, in America by Gnome Press.
Stock code: 29591
£50