An attractive copy of the First Edition in a "bespoke" ie home-made dustwrapper duplicating some of the author's designs including the memorial to his mother Rosalind Bassett. Original publishers cloth, aged but unworn 8vo.a.iv.154pps "produced in conformity with wartime economy standards" His second published novel, daring for its time and the last to be published in his lifetime was a major influence on Wm Burroughs. Together with Penguin New Writing No 39 containing two poems by Welch