8vo. Half-title. (Some toning.) Original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (minor soiling or rubbing to sides, spine creased down center, lower corners lightly bumped); dust jacket (toned, some soiling or chipping).

First Canadian book club edition, with 1951 and "Printed and Bound in Canada T.H. Best Printing Co., Limited, Toronto" at bottom of copyright page. Without the book club indentation on the rear board; the jacket with the author’s photo on rear panel (not present in later printings), and the Book-of-the-Month Club statement on the top and bottom of front jacket flap and top of rear flap. 

[With:] SALINGER. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. 8vo. Half-title. (Some light toning.) Original gray cloth (slight fading to extremities, water damage to lower spine and endpapers); dust jacket (price-clipped, soiled, some creasing or chipping). FIRST EDITION, second printing with "first edition" stated on copyright page, and integral dedication leaf.