1956. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth. Signed on fep to another author, Charles Drage. also includes a letter from John to Charles attached at the back of the book, with some notes about this novel. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Pen marginalia and annotation throughout. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket that is stuck to the boards. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints.