The Bachelors. Spark, Muriel.

First Edition, Octavo, pp., [6], 240, [2]. Original scarlet publishers' cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial price clipped dust-jacket. Slightly cocked, sunned to edges, with a small neat ownership signature to ffep, a tight, bright, otherwise clean copy. Clipped dust-jacket toned to verso, lightly worn at spine-tips and corners, with some very small closed tears, colours are bright and vibrant. Inventive, witty, and brilliantly tense novel hailed by Evelyn Waugh as "The cleverest and most elegant of all [Spark's] clever and elegant books".