First hardcover edition, first printing. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding firm and cloth fresh. There is some light spotting to the closed text block edge and a small mark to the margin of page 64, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise bright and without loss or tears.
First published in America as a paperback original in 1953.
Stock code: 25515
£55
London: Robert Hale.
1976