First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square, firm and bright. The contents, with some offsetting to the free endpapers and some spotting to the prelims and text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, chipped and nicked C. Leslie illustrated dustwrapper which has a couple of closed tears but little in the way of loss. Correctly priced 7/6net to the spine.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To my wife with love / Richard Starr / Theydon Bois, / November / 39." From the library of Martin Stone.
Stock code: 16269
£100