phoenix house science fiction book club h/cvr edition, not first uk h/cvr°
cover (d-j) art by c. w. bacon in browny-red on ?grey (signed cwb, uncredited)
cover price (5s.6d. plus postage)
200pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
° - the first uk h/cvr edition was by victor gollancz (1958), which may have been the first h/cvr edition (if the ballantine books h/cvr did not appear).