London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1961. First edition. 8vo. 156pp. Publisher’s burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly bumped to spine ends in a very good, clean example of the dustjacket, unclipped, with some light wear to the extremities and the tiniest shred of loss to the head of the spine. A very good copy indeed, internally clean. Sackville-West’s last novel, a dark, enriching story of a man who stakes everything on a last cruise with the object of his desire.