LAST ITEM HELD MATCHING THIS TITLE STATED:

London: Secker & Warburg, 1951. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper. 8vo. jacket design by Stein. Dustwrapper Moravia novel, following the story of a writer who suspends his sex life so as to retain the mental alertness to write his masterpiece; a reprint from the same year of the first edition (the dustwrapper states Second Impression, publishing page states Reprint); this copy has the former owner's name and one small bookshop label to front pastedown, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, with some loss (1cm approx) to head and foot of spine, and one tiny piece chipped out of spine, price clipped (mylar protected).