First Edition (Scribner 'A' on the copyright page.
Once listed, this will be the Only non-library hardcover for sale anywhere on the Internet.
There is one library hardcover without a dust jacket.
You can see the orange covers of the book in the photos.
They are exceptionally clean.
I don't see any soiling.
The black lettering on the spine is nicely bright.
There's a little bit of wear at both spine ends.
There is a small crease below the front top corner.
It had no impact on the pages.
The cover edges are in very good shape, one little spot of rub-through just adjacent to the top edge of the spine on the rear cover edge.
All four of the cover corners have tiny spots of light rubbing.
The page edges look very good, a few specks on the top one, one on the bottom.
The book is square and the spine is straight.
The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well.
The white inside covers and facing end papers are very clean.
That is the case with all of the text pages in the book.
Scrolling through, I'm not finding any instances of soiling.
There is a light spot on the blank verso of the second front end paper, and a couple of tiny light spots on the half-title page and the copyright page.
There isn't any foxing in the book.
I'm also not finding any creasing, no turned-down corner creases, no placeholder creases.
There are no markings in the book.
There are no attachments of any kind.
And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
The very rare dust jacket has some wear, but is in decent condition.
You can see the small losses at both the top and bottom edges of the spine.
There is also a two inch tear coming down from the top edge at the juncture between the rear cover and spine.
There isn't any print on the flaps of the jacket with the exception of the price which is off the top edge of the front flap.
The flaps are in good shape.
The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all.
I have always had it in a fitted protective cover.
'Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow, was an English novelist, playwright, poet, and literary and social critic.
' She was married to C.
P.
Snow from 1950 to 1980 when he died.
She died the next year.
She was very highly regarded as a novelist.
As a literary critic she wrote about Wolfe, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Marcel Proust.
Six Proust Reconstructions, published in 1958, confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar.