1st Edition, 1st Impression. 12.5 x 18.7 cm black cloth with silver stamped titles to the spine. Buff endpapers, [vi] 242pp in original unclipped dust jacket priced at 10s 6d. SSigned, inscribed, dated and doodled by the author to Kem [Kimon Evan Marengo] the cartoonist (for whom he’d provided the forward to a book of his wartime cartoons) on the front free endpaper and with a signed (on verso) photograph of the author laid in. Kersh led a varied life before being able to make a living from writing and he used his experiences including as a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish and chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in wrestler in his wide ranging works although he became best known for his short stories in crime, fantasy, horror and Sci-Fi genres with Harlen Ellison citing him as his favourite author.