SCOOP. A Novel About Journalists.

First edition, first printing. Original snakeskin effect cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the first state dustwrapper. A superb fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing, inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's postcard loosely laid in. Complete with the exceptionally bright, very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a couple of tiny nicks at the fold corners and a faint stain to the right edge of the upper panel. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). Retaining the original publisher issued wraparound band. Housed in a bespoke black cloth solander case.

A stellar example of the earliest state of the first edition (with the '8' in the publication date indistinct and "as" the last word on page 88), in the uncommon first issue dustwrapper. This dustwrapper was quickly withdrawn after the threat of legal action from Daily Express owner Lord Beaverbrook who was furious at the similarity of the Daily Beast masthead with his own.