first edition
1945 · London
by Williams, Charles
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. First Edition. About Near Fine/About Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Williams and inscribed in Oxford in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. About Near Fine with slight lean to binding, darkening to spine cloth and edges. Light bleeding from cloth to endsheets. In a like dust jacket with toning to spine and shallow losses to corners and spine ends and light soiling. A posthumous fantasy in which two women adrift in the City of the Dead restore contact with the world of the living so that one of them may oppose the grandiose plans of the master (truncated)