The Grass Is Singing

yellow cloth boards w/ blue-green lettering on spine; 245 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $3.00 on front flap, author photo by Hay Wrightson on rear. quote by Pamela Hansford Johnson on back cover. jacket design by Johannes Troyer, typography by George Nehrbas. good copy only in very good(+) dust jacket; stain to lower 1/3 spine area, slanting 1/2" onto front & rear boards towards bottom, & along bottom edges; light foxing to upper front, more to upper back; transparent stain to dusty top edge, tiny spot on bottom edge; endpapers clean & text block tight, w/ minor foxing on pgs 112-3; dust jacket has 1" closed tears to top front edge, top of spine fold, & rear (mid)spine fold; slight rubbing to spine ends w/ nick at the head; inside dj has minor spine stain (inconspicuous on front) & light-pink bleeding to back bottom edge (visible on lower back of dj); w/ all faults, still a presentable example of the dj (from the outside), the 1st U.S. printing of Lessing's first book being truly scarce.