London Heinemann 1960 1st British Edition / 1st Printing H Hard Cover Very Good in J Good jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall First British edition / First printing. Very good in good-dust jacket. Jacket: 1.5 x 1 inch semi-circular piece missing on lower left edge of front panel, 2.25 x 2 inch tall triangular piece missing at bottom right of rear panel, top 1.5 inches of rear panel unevenly torn away. 13.5 x 19cm. hard cover. 184pp.

New York: Random House, Date: 1959. Book. Illus. by Sam March (dust jacket design). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. Humes's second novel, following 'The Underground City,' both of which led to his being considered by Esquire magazine as having the same promise as two obscure guys named Updike and Styron (whoever they are). Anyway, he met a guy named Leary who introduced him to a little substance known as LSD, and after seriously indulging his fondness for the hallucinogen he became a trifle paranoid and a bit delusional, which pretty much ended his writing career. Humes was co-founder (with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton) of The Paris Review. He died of prostate cancer in 1992. Black cloth w/gilt lettering, 184 pages. Mildly cocked, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light rubbing, light edgewear, creases to fore-edges of both flaps.. 1959. Random House [CA]