New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First U. S. edition, with author's Fourth Avenue address to front flap of dust-jacket. 4to. English language printing. Illustrated by the author. Publisher's salmon-colored cloth, stamped in maroon, lightly rubbed to extremities but otherwise tight and clean, some offsetting to endpapers and faint thumb-soiling to margins, previous owner's small rubberstamp to both pastedowns; in original pictorial dust-jacket, moderately toned and with wear to extremities including some chipping to spine ends and corners, bottom edge of spine panel with an additional one-inch closed tear, a few light spots and pencil marks.