First UK and first hardback edition, first printing. Original black cloth with silver titles to the 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, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£16.99 on the front flap).
First published in America as a paperback original in 1957. This first hardcover edition is limited to 400 copies.
Stock code: 25520
£30
London: Robert Hale.
2000