First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book, issued two years before his career-making 'A Man for All Seasons'.
This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
8vo.
96pp.
Grey boards lettered and bordered in white at the spine.
Photographic frontispiece of Celia Johnson and Ralph Richardson, the stars of the original November 1957 production at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
A strip of quite light partial browning to the free endpapers, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, marred only by a small area of loss from the head of the rear panel.