Publication details: Faber and Faber,1952,
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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Billie & Rosalind, gratefully. Their sympathy has never failed me over this book - which seemed ill-starred, They believed in it, To them this copy, at last! Irene Rathbone, October 1952'. Her final novel, a complex portrait of a 'much-divided society' (blurb) in the lead-up to the Second World War.The printed dedication is to her friend Storm Jameson, whose advice regarding the novel included trimming some of its political content.
1952, pp. 483, 8vo, original red cloth, now mostly faded to pink, to varying degrees and most of all to the gilt-lettered backstrip, lean to spine, edges and endpapers a little spotted, dustjacket with a typographic design by Berthold WOlpe, a little chipped and nicked, good
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