First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt rule and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom edge. An excellent better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a few foxing spots to the endpapers and lower edge of the closed text block are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's catalogue to the rear. An attractive example.
A collection of five short stories comprising 'The Idiots'; 'An Outpost of Progress'; 'The Lagoon'; 'Karain: a Memory'; 'The Return'. All but the last had been previously published in magazine form.
Stock code: 25302
£400