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First US edition, first printing, very rare in the jacket: we can trace no other examples of the dust jacket in auction records. This copy is from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. The author's early comic novel was first published in Britain the previous year. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decorated in gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 2 illustrated plates by Will Grefé. Binding bright, small spot of wear to rear joint neatly repaired, contents clean; jacket rubbed and marked, extremities lightly chipped, a few neat tape repairs to verso: a very good copy in very good jacket. McIlvaine A16b.