First edition, first impression (true first). 248pp. Red cloth-covered boards (slightly offset). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (worn and chipped at edges with minor loss at head of spine). Dust jacket design by Broom Lynne. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the book or dust jacket in anyway. One of H E Bates' most piercing novels, where the action takes place over a period of ten days at a Catholic Mission in Kashmir.
