London: Macmillan, 1940

8vo, pp. 442. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt and title lettered in gilt on light blue roundel to spine. Printed dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, small old damp stain to lower edge of text block, top edge dusty, a very good copy in a worn and darkened dust jacket, faded at spine, and a closed tear to front spine fold.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY BRITTAIN: 'For Find Graucob with kindest remembrances from Vera Brittain January 1st, 1940'.

Winifred Holtby died in 1935 at the age of thirty-seven: her best-known novel, South Riding, was published posthumously. She met Vera Brittain in 1919 when they were fellow undergraduates at Oxford, and the two became lifelong friends.