First Edition, First Printing (Stated "First Printing" on copyright page). Clean unfaded orange boards with unfaded black spine, orange lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight tanning to pages). Clean bright endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 239 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unfaded, with a few tiny edge nicks. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A moral drama of a strained marriage between a French cocoa trader and his wife, set in Africa. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Fiction.