8vo, pp. 84. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Grey endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. Bookplate of Sara Randall to front free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
First edition of the artist-cum-playwright-turned-novelist's first book, INSCRIBED TO HIS LITERARY AGENT SARA RANDALL: 'For Sara with all my love Tom Mallin May 1970'.