map end-papers to the front and rear (of Treffle and Neighbourhood to illustrate "Merrivale and Fossiter") ; signed on the pre-title page by the author with the inscription: "For George Plenderleith with all best wishes from Wyndham Haslett Cambridge July 30th, '34"; a scarce novel of the eternal and inevitable conflict that is produced in life between the dreamer and the man of action, the poetic and the materialistic nature, the sensitive and the insensitive spirit.