At Fever Pitch

London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First Edition. Original burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, with the excellent and unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket, by Robert Micklewright (1923-2013). Without old inscriptions or other internal markings. Slight fading to spine of the jacket. A near fine copy. Gay-interest novel set in a fictional British colony on the edge of independence; the central character is Lieut. Michael Glyn, an young English subaltern from a good background and education who has no sense of vocation for his job and is emotional to the point of hysteria.