8vo. Half-title. Original black cloth lettered in gold on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some minor rubbing to spine ends and extremities).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY O'HARA on front flyleaf. Butterfield 8, O'Hara's second novel and one of his best, a roman à clef loosely based on the life of Starr Faithfull, a socialite and flapper whose mysterious death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. The novel was the basis for the 1960 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher and Dina Merrill.