First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with silver titles to the spine. In the original Youngman Carter illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which is faded to the spine and has a 3 cm closed tear to the upper panel. Not price clipped (12s 6d net to the front flap).
This title was adapted into a film starring Brigitte Bardot in 1958 called En Cas De Malheur (The English title is Love is My Profession).
Stock code: 18833
£55