First Edition, first impression. Publisher's dark reddish-purple boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 224. Published on 10th April 1964 in an edition of 15,326 copies, at 18/-, colonial copies 9/-, of which 14,326 were bound. Jacket design by John Piper. A book in Near Fine condition, with a spine lean, in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. Gekoski and Grogan A8(a)