8vo, forest green buckram cloth, gilt titles, yellow top stain, 403pp. Stated First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) with mild wear to edges, toning to flaps. Ownership signature to front endpaper, residue present to rear endpaper. Faint impression from previous tape marks to board edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square, though with a slight lean to boards. Originally penned 1951, a semi-autobiographical novel somewhat of a companion to Confessions of a Mask; the story of a gay man married to a young woman. A very good copy in mylar, rather scarce.