8vo. Publisher's cream-colored cloth; original dust jacket (creases,).
 
FIRST EDITION. The earliest version of Under the Volcano was completed in 1940 and for the next four years Lowry shopped it around to various publishers, while he continually edited the work. The manuscript was nearly lost in a fire in 1944; immediately afterwards Lowry inserted numerous references to infernos throughout the story, which was finally published in 1947.