The Horse’s Mouth

First edition, first impression.  292pp.  Blood red cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine.  Cloth a little tired, gently rounded on extreme points, slight lean. Browning to text block (edges and pages).  In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, worn, rubbed and chipped at edges, browned to spine and rear panel, with large closed tear on rear panel.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

The third and final instalment of Anglo-Irish novelist Joyce Cary’s ‘Third Trilogy’, preceded by Herself Surprised (1941) and To Be a Pilgrim (1942).