first edition Hardcover
1953 · London
by Heard, Gerald
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. Hardcover. 198p., sketch illustrations throughout, hardbound in 8.5x6 inch orange boards titled black and enclosed in the charming dust jacket. Book itself is quite good despite endsheets somewhat discolored by binder's glue, and a publisher's cancel to copyright page which has bled through to titlepage; while dj is fresh-looking with a short tear at the head tacked verso with clear tape. A very good copy. Heard had been a member of Prabhavananda's circle. Originally published in the U.S. in 1952 as 'Gabriel and the Creatures.'. (Inventory #: 283881)