8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine a bit leaned); later book club dust jacket supplied.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the errata slip tipped in before the dedication page. Appointment in Samarra was a massive success upon publication, with an enthusiastic Ernest Hemingway writing of it, "If you want to read a book by a man who knows what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara." Bruccoli A2.1.