Intermezzo

No book-club issue is documented. The heavy trap on this title is bookseller-exclusive states issued at or near publication, all of which are first-thus or variant rather than the plain first: the Kenny's signed and numbered limitation of 1,000 copies (numbered to a limitation page); copies with sprayed or blackened edges; copies with chess-board endpapers; the state carrying the bonus short story "Colour and Light"; and publication-day event covers stamped or illustrated by commissioned artists. Signed copies occur both with a bound-in signature leaf and with a loosely tipped-in publisher's bookplate — distinguish the two. Later Faber impressions are identified by numbers removed from the number row.