London: Chapman & Hall, no date [1948]. Blue cloth, blue top page edges Just a mite leaned; soft corner crease though p. 20, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has minor soiling to rear panel, a couple of nicks, VG+ otherwise, attractive. The 1948 US edition, essentially the text of the Horizon magazine first publication, precedes. Waugh revised the text for this UK edition, which is also the first illustrated edition. "This is a nightmare induced by the unfamiliar diet of Southern California"- from the jacket. A satire on the American way of death and the basis of a memorable film years back.; Octavo