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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Hardcover. 62p., first US edition in lightly worn cloth boards. No dust jacket. The British first edition is Young 2576. First novel by the nephew of W. Somerset Maugham. Filmed in 1963 with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Hardcover. 62p., shelfwear, previous ownership stamp in Japanese characters on endpaper else a good first US edition stated in boards and price-clipped, edgeworn dust jacket with a strip of internal inexpert tape reinforcement along the bottom front panel, another extending down the head of the spine. The British first edition is Young 2576. Basis of the Joseph Losey film starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles and James Fox. Debut novel.