1955. First GB edition. 229 pages. Illustrated jacket over black cloth. Translated by Christina Stead. Includes photographic plates. Pages have slight foxing, moderate tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. Text block edges intensely tanned. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Faint pale marks. Clipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is rather rubbed and marked overall. Some water staining to rear.