This is the Hour (signed presentation copy) walter all with the price clipped

all with the price clipped dust-wrappers

Marginal browning

never very heavy

gilt-decorated cloth

This is the Hour (signed presentation copy) walter all with the price clippedLondon: Fortune Press, c1942. Signed with presentation inscription from the author, dated December 1942. No printed publishing date but London Library gives 1942 which would tally with the inscription, perhaps signed at the book's launch or soon after. Original pale blue cloth boards, lower board heavily soiled. Without the dust jacket. The inscription runs, "For Mr & Mrs Burgess, in remembrances of a happy encounter, from Agnes Grozier Herbertson