First edition in English. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt, in the original pictorial dustwrapper.
 
A very good copy in a very good jacket, which is stained and darkened at the spine, and which has a short tear at the head of the spine.
 
PROVENANCE: From the library of Patricia Strachan, distinguished literary editor who has held senior positions at a number of major publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and who was also Fiction Editor at The New Yorker.