8vo. Half-title. Original orange cloth printed in black and red, top edge stained red (some spotting); in unclipped dust jacket (chipping, a few old tape repairs on verso, some rubbing to edges). Provenance: Lewis Gannett (note from Michael Gannett and Bradford Morrow, bookseller, tipped in).

FIRST TRADE EDITION, CRITIC LEWIS GANNETT'S COPY.  New York Herald Tribune critic Lewis Gannett's blurb is the first to appear on the rear panel: "...a book to cherish...tells the stories of those lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and prose that reminds one of Robert Nathan's lovely One More Spring." Goldstone & Payne A5b.  A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.