London: Collins, 1973

8vo, pp. 180. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Slight fading to spine, but a near fine copy with just a little general edgewear.

First edition, SIGNED AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE TO JUNE TILLINGHAST: 'For June from Bryan as ever [illegible] 21/2/73'. June was the widow of Tony Tillinghast, Johnson's close friend from university, who died of cancer in 1964, at the age of twenty-nine.