Christchurch: The Caxton Press. German edition 1961 (text printed in English), 8vo.,pp. 123, green and red mottled hardcover, yellow lettering; pencilling to half title page and ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to spine, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and soiled to spine and rear, which has wear to corners and head and foot of spine with small areas of loss, overall a very good copy.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 314, brown hardcover, gilt; toned with light foxing to edges of text block, spine slightly rolled, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to extremities, with light wear to corners.

London: W.H. Allen, 1963. First UK Edition, 8vo.,pp. 192, red hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins and toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and soiling to rear.

London: Virago, 2020. 8vo., pp. 309, green hardcover, gilt; author’s signature to half title page, a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket which has very minor rubbing to extremities and ‘signed copy’ sticker to front cover.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1997. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,190, black cloth, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy in very good indeed unclipped dust-jacket with a few light surface scratches.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. 8vo., pp.,642, orange hardcover, gilt; head toned, spotting to fore-edge, offsetting to end-papers, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear book protector.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition, 8vo.,pp.,608, black hardcover, gilt; top shaded, light spotting to fore-edge, o/w a very good copy in very good dust-jacket showing wear to edges.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.252, black hardcover with pictorial detail blocked in white to front board and gilt lettering to spine; toned and lightly foxed to edges of text block, with light toning to margins, spine slightly rolled, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, with light wear to upper corners, speckling and light soiling with toning to reverse, overall a very good copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp. lv,532, red hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text-block particularly to top edge, a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface scratches.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 8vo., pp. lv,303, red hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text-block particularly to top edge, a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface scratches.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp. lv,303, red hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text-block particularly to top edge, a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface scratches.

Cambridge University Press, 1981. First edition, 8vo., pp.lvii,426, red cloth, gilt; foxing to edges, else near-fine, in like dust-jacket.

Edinburgh: Canongate, in association with Goldsboro Books, 2021. First, limited edition, no.160 of 1500 copies numbered and signed by the author to the title page, 8vo.,pp. 328, black hardcover, silver lettering, decorative fore-edge of text block, pictorial title page; light soiling to upper edge of text block, slight scuff to head of spine, otherwise clean and near fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is very lightly rubbed to extremities.

London: John Calder, 1959. First edition thus, 8vo., pp. 418, navy hardcover; toning and foxing to prelims, endpapers and fore-edge of text block, lightly rubbed, a few very light marks to boards, a very good copy.

London: Johnathan Cape. First edition, 8vo., pp.642, orange cloth, gilt, blue top edge; very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, else a near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust jacket.

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 12mo., pp.xii,544, navy hardcover, gilt; light toning and foxing to endpapers, hinge slightly visible to title, slight foxing to top edge, very light shelf-wear to extremities, gilding lightly faded to spine, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket which is lightly soiled and toned and has small areas of loss to head and foot of spine, which are lightly rubbed, else good+

San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2010. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 359, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

USA: Night Shade Books, 2005. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.,242,blue hardcover, silver lettering; head slightly toned, price sticker to back cover of dust-jacket, o/w a very good copy in unclipped dust-jacket

Manchester: Carcanet New Press Ltd. 8vo., pp.156, tan hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light foxing and toning to egdes and very slightly to margins, very slightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which is sunned to spine, slightly toned and very lightly rubbed to headband.