First UK and first hardback edition, first printing. Original black cloth with silver titles to spine, in the Barbara Walton illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£17.99 on the front flap).
First published in America as a paperback original in 1952. This first hardcover edition is one of only 300 copies.
Stock code: 25516
£40
London: Robert Hale.
2005