First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 190pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's fractionally faded top edge stain. With a handsome title page illustration, and twelve chapter header drawings by Biro. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a trace of dust soiling and very slight edge-wear. A novel detailing life during one year in a small industrial town.