Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'Elizabeth Jungmann from R. C. Trevelyan October 1941'. The recipient was a woman of considerable interest. She had been secretary and interpreter in the employ of Gerhart Hauptmann. She fled the Nazis and fetched up in London where she reconnected with Max Beerbohm (a friend of Hauptmann's). Max employed her as secretary through the early 1950s, before marrying her in the last months of of his life.

First edition, sole impression; one of 400 copies only, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's marbled paper boards, cream paper title labels to upper board and spine printed in black. A superb copy.