First Edition, First American Edition. First true hardcover edition, previously published by the Atlantic Magazine and as a supplement for an English newspaper. Basis for two films in 1939 and 1969, a 1984 TV mini series, and a TV show in 2002. The most popular of these productions was the 1969 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Peter O Toole, Petula Clarke, and Michael Redgrave. Near Fine but for some light foxing to endpapers and spotting to page ends, in a Very Good dustjacket, with spine mildly darkened with single crease running spine s length, only the lightest wear to spine ends and flap corners.