1st ed, 1st imp. Second state dust jacket. 206pp. Book produced to war economy standards. Black cloth-covered boards (worn, marked, rubbed at edges, rounded at corners and spine ends). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, else no other library markings. (A few marks on well-thumbed pages, first gutter cracked, old gutter repair to title page spread, generally worn). In its original, vintage dust jacket (tired & worn, edge-chipped, rubbed at folds and joints, faded). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Jane England was a pen name of Vera Jervis. Her other novels include Distaff, Skyline, The Barrier, The Flowering Veldt, Safe Conduct etc.