First edition, first printing. Signed by Dodie Smith and inscribed in the year of publication to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lean to binding, light foxing to top edge, light softening to crown. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning, foxing and light edge wear. A follow-up to one of Smith's best-known works, The Hundred And One Dalmatians.