FIRST EDITION, 87/90 COPIES (from an edition of 500 copies) signed by the author, pp. x, 171, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, top corners gently bumped, near fine. Early work, written in 1959, from the author's unsuccessful years - this, a non-sf novel, the only vestige of that impoverished time which the author cared to revive. The enthusiastic Introduction is by the publisher, music journalist Paul Williams.