No signatures. Slight bowing to boards. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 253, [3 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 186 x 125mm. Top page edges dyed blue. A novel. "Kingsley Amis's first foray into the supernatural is a triumph. His cunning construction of terror, heightened and relieved by the witty portrayal of the wearily dissipated Allington intolerably burdened by himself, is an outstandingly entertaining contribution to the literature of the macabre." - from dust-jacket blurb.