London: Chatto & Windus, 1953

8vo, pp. 258. Original blue boards, lettered in green on spine. Uniform sunning to lower edge, some offsetting to ffep. Dust-jacket sunned at spine with slight scuffing at head. A very good copy in a very good dust-wrapper.

First edition.
Essays on Gide, Gissing, W.W.Jacobs, Dickens, Stendhal and many others.