Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt (with coronet in gilt on front board and spine). Spine sunned, corners scuffed, foxing spots, good. The aristocratic author had previously written The Hard Way and followed with another half dozen (novels up to 1920), while maintaining his blue-blooded anonymity. "[a] bold, penetrating and affecting story" (publisher's blurb in 1910 catalogue, bound in at end).