The First Edition of the authors first novel and published work but in its second issue just two months after the first. In an unclipped 10/6d dust- 8vo.viii.303pps. Yellow publishers cloth lettered red to spine. Authors decorative end papers, Frontispiece portrait and title page,dedication leaf with foreword - To & by Edith Sitwell and chapter headings all by the author. An exceptional copy of the second printing inscribed to prelims " To my dear son My love Mother 1943"