THE RETURN OF LANNY BUDD

New York:The Viking Press. 1953. 1st edition. ix+555pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Red boards ever so slighlty soiled and shelfworn, with silver print still bright on spine strip. Internally end-pages slightly age-toned with an old bookseller ticket to bottom of 1st free end-page, otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures.  The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is near very good, slightly soiled and shelfworn with wear to edges and folds including small chips and tears and now enclosed in brodart. It is not price clipped.