Unexpurgated modern reprint of Hanley's second novel, first published in 1931 and withdrawn four years later after a jury found the publisher's guilty of obscene libel. Here presented with a new introduction by Anthony Burgess. London: Andre Deutsch, 1990. First thus. Octavo, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. Green textured-paper boards, gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. Bumping to spine ends. With the paper label of a New York literary agency tipped onto the front free endpaper. Unclipped jacket lightly crumpled at spine ends. Near fine in a near fine jacket.
