WILLIAM SAROYAN. — The Human Comedy. A novel. With illustrations by Don Freeman.

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 222pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Contemporary former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in lightly toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with one or two tiny slivers of edge-loss. The author's first novel (following various colletions of short fiction), which originated as a 240-page film script written for MGM, but which he turned into a best selling novel after being dropped from the film project., Near Fine, Very Good