Heinemann

Illustrated edition with 15 color plates by Arthur Rackham, including a frontispiece, as well as black and white drawings in the text.
Publisher's full blue paper boards, smooth spine faded and decorated with gilt animal motifs, front cover faded and stamped in the center with a gilt illustration, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns with worming, top edge blue and faded.
A small tear without loss at the foot of page 45, not touching the text.

First English edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket with slight marginal lacks to the boards.

The two novellas in this collection were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.

First UK edition.
Blue cloth publisher's binding.
Nice copy with its dust jacket. Slight traces rubbing at the foot and at the head of the dust jacket.
Corner missing at the foot of the first flap of the dust jacket, with a small trace of adhesive.

The two short stories were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.

First edition with all the features of the first printing and for which no deluxe copies were issued.
Publisher's full dark blue cardboard binding, smooth spine, price of 13 cents 6 dollars at the foot of the inner flap of the front cover of the dust jacket.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket illustrated by Jerzy Faczynski which has three small tears and whose spine is slightly faded.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine.
Fine copy with the illustrated dust jacket by Sheila Perry in perfect condition

Later edition, no deluxe issue printed.

Rare presentation copy dated 1953 and signed by Ernest Hemingway at the Ritz to Madame Robert Faroux: "For madame Robert Faroux with sincere good wishes. Ernest Hemingway. Ritz 1953."

Fifth edition.
Half cloth binding in ochre, smooth spine.
Iconography and illustrations.
Some light foxing.