1st edition, 1st printing. 242pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little pushed at spine ends, very gently rounded on corners. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original worn paper dust wrapper, chapped at edges, shelf worn, sunned over spine.
A collection of six essays including After Reading Burke; The Decline and Fall of the Detective Story; Zurbaran etc.