4to (254 x 203 mm). Original carbon manuscript, comprising approximately 521 pages. Staple-bound into three gatherings; folding case (several pages detached, lacking some pages at the ends of each, some creasing).

Hilton wrote Winifred Herself (later published as Catherine Herself) while an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge. The book was published the year before he graduated and marks the start of a distinguished literary career which would see Hilton publish his iconic works Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon and the screenplay for Mrs. Miniver which would result in him winning an Academy Award in 1942.