First UK and first hardcover edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with minor rubbing and bumping to the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing, inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a few tiny chips to the fold corners and tips of the lightly faded spine. Not price-clipped (£1.80 to the lower front flap).
Originally published in the US as a paperback original, this British first edition is the first hardcover
Stock code: 23624
£500