FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, edges foxed. Lengthy pencil note to ffep connecting characters and settings to British booksellers and quoting Sims, some foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. In Bernard Blatch’s original pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, score to front panel, else, sharp and bright. A pleasing copy of Sims’ first biblio thriller.