8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt titles, 184pp. First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket moderately toned to panels, faint wear to edges. Ownership signature to front endpaper, light toning to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. True first [British] edition, ‘A conversation piece’  novel written in a hallucinatory fever, a satire of the novelist in middle age. A nearly fine copy in mylar.