8vo. Half-title. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, fore-edge uncut and partially unopened (spine slightly leaned, very slight wear to spine ends and corners); in unclipped dust jacket (some portions with restoration and recoloring, some work in facsimile at the head of the front panel and at spine ends); morocco-backed folding case.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. In the FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with blurbs on the front flap by T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld. "The beginning... is a wonderful evocation of the second phase of American expatriates ensconced in glittering villas on the Riviera in contrast to the home-spun tipplers of The Sun Also Rises. The break-down of a marriage... is described with flashes of genius by an expert in self-destruction, and there is a haunting account... of the predicament of 'grace under pressure' from too many parties and too much money" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 79). Bruccoli A15.1.a.