First edition. 4to. Original brown printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Edinburgh, The Salamander Press, 1981.
Inscribed by the author to the English poet and critic Anthony Thwaite in black ink to the title page: ‘To Anthony Thwaite from James Fenton’.
A very good copy overall, minor creasing to extremities. With two press clippings of Fenton’s poetry from the TLS loosely inserted at rear.