8vo, blue cloth, blue titles, 224pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with rubbing and spotting to panels, a large closed tear to spine at rear panel, chipping to spine crown and lower edge of front panel. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first published novel by Spark, a hallucinatory ‘book within a book’ involving dexedrine, insanity and an English conversion to Roman Catholicism. ‘One of the few really original first novels I have read for many years.’ - Graham Greene. A very good copy in mylar.