8vo, beige buckram cloth, green titles, 356pp. First American printing by the publisher [from the original UK edition by Sheed and Ward in 1939]. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with foxing and rubbing to panels, small chips and short closed tears to edges, faint dampstain to rear flap edge of rear panel. Light foxing to text block edges, age toning to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Subtitled ‘A Contemporary Novel of the French ‘Eighties’, the second and final novel by the French decadent era writer, mystic and madman, an allegory of poverty and charity in the life of a socially outcasted Catholic couple. The first of Bloy’s novels to be published in English, translated from the French by I.J. Collins. A good copy.