The novel most famously associated with John Boynton Priestley; here in the special deluxe issue. The story serves as a social panorama of London at the time, set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, taken from the perspective of the clerks of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, at No. 8, Angel Pavement, where the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Golspie in 1930 upsets their routine existence.

First edition, deluxe issue, number 550 of 1025 copies signed by the author; 8vo; frontispiece portrait, some toning and minor spotting; publisher's buckram, t.e.g., others uncut.