"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde

London: Jonathan Cape. 1965, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, BINDING D. Pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Price clipped else a beautiful fine copy; remarkably fresh. A previously unrecorded binding; this is one of just over 5000 copies of the 82,000-strong first impression bound in the Fabroleen material -the vast majority were bound in Excelin. Uncommon. Item #42151
Gilbert A13a (1.5).
Price: £895.00