FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 245, [1], incl. title page vignette + b/w double portrait frontis. Sage green textured cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board lettered and decorated in black. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine sunned and rubbed, dint to leading edge of upper board. Top corners of pp. 153-160 neatly removed. Else, clean and tight. A pleasing copy of the first full-length study of Bradley and Cooper, which sought, unsuccessfully, to “try to retrieve something of this life and work from the limbo into which it appeared to be slipping” (Preface). A pleasing copy of a lovely edition.