First edition of the author's masterpiece, written between August and December 1938. A record of the author's intellectual and emotional experience during that period, MacNeice described the work as 'both a panorama and a confession of faith'.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; light age-toning to text block, else unmarked internally; publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, with the unclipped dust-jacket, some chips and tears, minor loss to spine ends, rear panel soiled, else very good.