First edition. 8vo., original brown cloth, dust jacket. London, MacMillan, 1973.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Ronald and Margot [Bottrall] one evening in May … love Muriel. Rome”. With a loosely inserted page of critical notes, probably by Ronald: “p.38. Up to now the book is brilliant. p. 78 Still brilliant but a little odd … p. 113 Gets a bit nuts from this point and progressively madder.” A near fine copy in dust jacket.
