Strike the Father Dead

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Wain on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (18s net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Red cloth, faintly rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wain's novel about a young jazz pianist and his efforts to avoid the war while making it as a musician.