Description
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. 638, [2]. Original black cloth lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in green, orange, and black. Dustjacket rear panel slightly soiled. Light pencil inscription to dustjacket rear panel.
£35
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. 638, [2]. Original black cloth lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in green, orange, and black. Dustjacket rear panel slightly soiled. Light pencil inscription to dustjacket rear panel.
A sharp copy of the first British edition of the Pulitzer award-winning novel about the fear of Communism in mid-century American politics, in the specific form of the fraught Senate confirmation process of a Secretary of State with a suspicious past. The American edition was published a year earlier.