pub.  Michael Joseph, London, 1961, First Edition, hardcover 8vo without dj, 156pp., Chapters.

Condition:   Maroon cloth-bound hardcover with gilt title to spine, rubbing to spine & corners, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION, with previous owner's name to endpapers, foxing to endpapers, without dustjacket. 

• This is a very unusual sort of novel.
  
• It can scarcely be described as a novel at all.
  
• It represents the day to day jottings of the last few weeks of his life in the diary of journalist Edmund Carr.