First UK edition, first printing (previously published in the USA under the title Four Horse-players are Missing). 224pp. In red cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at spine ends. Offset toning on endpapers, front free endpaper price-clipped in upper corner else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original matte, illustratred dust wrapper, a little rubbed on extreme edges, crumbled at spine ends, a couple of minor indentations on spine.
A novel of relationships perverted by gambling and intrigue.