London: Secker & Warburg, 1967

8vo, pp. 307. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dust jacket, author’s photographic portrait to rear panel. Small mark to front free endpaper, top edge a little dusty and some slight age toning to text block, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some light wear, most noticeable to top edge and head of spine, which is a little chipped.

First UK edition, first published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York the previous year. INSCRIBED BY SINGER TO HIS PUBLISHER FREDRIC WARBURG: ‘To a good publisher and a good friend, Frederick [sic] Warburg with my very best wishes, Isaac B. Singer’.

The first volume of Singer’s autobiographical writings; another six were to follow over the next thirty years. Secker & Warburg acted as Singer’s UK publisher during the 1960s, beginning with The Magician of Lublin in 1961.