Description

• Hazzard’s first book, a collection of short stories previously published in The New Yorker
• Shirley Hazzard was an Australian who moved to the US, worked for a decade at the United Nations then ventured into the literary world, first with short stories and later novels [to great acclaim, winning a Miles Franklin amongst other accolades]
• First UK Printing [Macmillan, London, 1963]; viii, 209, [5 blank]; red cloth, gold titling to spine, gently bumped at extremities, a near-fine copy; in the very good price-clipped dustjacket, corners bumped, rubbed along edges, spine darkened with author name faded, foxing verso