The Ballroom of Romance. London: Bodley Head, 1972. First Edition. Pp, 269. Cloth boards in pictorial designed by Stephen Russ. Jacket price-clipped, some fait spotting to inner flap & along top of front endpapers. Overall a nice bright copy.

The author’s second collection of short stories featuring his magnificent ‘Ballroom of Romance’ which was turned into a haunting film by Pat O’Connor in 1982.