n.d. (as called for). FIRST TRADE EDITION. Crown 8vo, pp. [vi], 144, incl. Boyle’s frontis and seven full-page illustrations, plus decorated initials. Navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge blue (faded). Blue marbled endpapers. Spine cocked, slight bend to boards, else, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: toned, extremities chipped, edgewear, blue staining to top of both flaps. Still, a pleasing copy of Waugh’s slight satirical novel of Hollywood and the LA funeral business.