presentation copy

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title page: 'To Audrey and Brian Pepper with every good wish. Stanley Middleton. 1974.'

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; some foxing early and late, strip of offsetting to prelims; publisher's blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, slightly toned, some spotting to flaps, slight fading to spine, mild ribbing to extremities, else very good.