8vo. Original black cloth, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine gilt, top stained red (slight rubbing to extremities, a few light stains); in unclipped dust jacket (slight creasing and minor chipping with a few short tears and small restorations, some toning and staining).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner’s "A" and seal on copyright page, and with the dropped "t" in "two hundred twenty-five pounds" on p.159. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET, with Stallings' review on the rear panel. A collection of 14 short stories, 6 of which were printed here for the first time including “The Light of the World,” “A Way You’ll Never Be,” "The Mother of a Queen," “Fathers and Sons," and others. Hanneman A12a.