First UK and first hardcover edition, first printing. Original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Barbara Walton illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, there is light spotting to the closed text block edge, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£3.10 on the front flap).
First published in the America as a paperback original in 1956.
Stock code: 25521
£40
London: Robert Hale.
1976