London: Heinemann, 1960

8vo, pp. 296. Original burgundy boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear panel.. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks to top edge at spine, a little edgewear to corners and spine ends, and some faint corrugation to front panel, probably caused by a cup of something hot a long time ago.

First UK edition, first published by Lippincott in the US in the same year.

The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960; the film of the book won three Oscars two years later. An enduring classic, and a nice copy of the UK first, most copies of which have been (understandably) read to death.