London: Gollancz, 1961

8vo, pp. 308. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Maps to endpapers. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Light rubbing to head of spine, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket, rear (white) panel a little marked.

First edition. CONTEMPORARY HEAD SHOT OF JOHN HURT, WITH HIS SIGNATURE, TO DEDICATION PAGE.

Ludovic Kennedy's dedication reads: 'This book is dedicated to Mrs. Thomasina Probert | Mother of | Timothy John Evans'. Hurt played Evans in Richard Fleischer's 1971 film, adapted from Kennedy's book, and starring Richard Attenborough as John Christie.