8vo, half beige cloth over black cloth boards, white titles, black top-stain, 439pp. Stated Third printing. Boards with minimal foxing and spotting to edges, soil mark present to front board. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An early printing of the landmark novel, bildungsroman of an outcasted and unnamed black college student, loosely based on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. Winner of the National Book Award in 1952. A very good copy sans dust jacket.