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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1957. 380 g.; IV, 5-368 pages. Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and discoloration to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Heavy browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning, offset tanning and light foxing to the endpapers and there is the occasional foxing spot throughout the text. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with green titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dustwrapper corners and to the top backstrip edge. There is a "V" piece is missing to the top left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel and an extension of the "V" is a 1" tear. There is a similar sized tears to the top right-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel and numerous small closed tears to the top edge of the new dustwrapper panel. There is a piece missing from the lower edge of the front dustwrapper measuring 2.5 " x 0.25 ". Heavy rubbing along the dustwrapper edges and fading to the backstrip. The rear dustwrapper panel is slightly yellowed and shows handling marks. A black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The remains of original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. " An Englishman, holidaying in France, is tricked by an amoral Frenchman and trapped by his own dissatisfaction into assuming the other's identity. The dreams, desires and destinies of four women and one strange child come to depend upon his decisions .... on the harrowing week he spends in a Chateau whose lights and shadows envelop everyone who enters." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Damaged. 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo. Novel -- Suspense.