Jonathan Cape of London, 1962
First Edition, First Printing Beautiful fine condition book and stunning, bright fine/near fine vibrant dust jacket.
Original black covered boards with an embossed silver dagger to front board. Bright unfaded silver titles to spine.The book is in beautiful fine condition with sharp corners, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The bright red end papers are clean with no owner names, no inscriptions, no bookstore stamps and no bookplates. The internal pages are very clean, bright and flat with No stains, No writing, No foxing, no handling marks, and No bent pages. Fine clean copy, internally appearing as unread. Please see images for details.
The original first edition dust jacket is in near fine condition being overall very bright with vibrant colors and virtually none of the darkening/sunning that is typically found on the spine of this title. Instead, the spine is bright, and the jacket is clean with but very tiny nicks to the spine tips, otherwise no rips, no edgewear, no chips, no tears, no rubbing, no fading, no sunning, no stains, and no foxing. (please see images). The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 15s net. Please see images for more details.
A very handsome example of this title which is incredibly difficult to locate with a stunning jacket. The book presents very well on the shelf.
