London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, claret hardcover, gilt; light foxing and partial toning to endpapers, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, unclipped, with small areas of loss to extremities, closed tear and crease to foot of spine, and apx.1 x 1.5cms loss at head of spine. The second of Wyndham’s novels to be published under his own name.