First edition, later printing, in the Hutchinson's Universal Book Club series. 354pp. In red cloth covered boards, with black lettering and decoration (very slightly rounded at spine ends). Light spotting on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (rubbed at chipped at edges, some mild creasing). The dust jacket credits Hurst and Blackett on the front (the original publisher) but Hutchinson's Universal Book Club on the spine. 8vo.