First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's yellow wrappers, slightly sunned, else very good. With the author's signed presentation inscription, 'For John La Rose from David Simon'. The recipient John La Rose was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder of New Beacon Books in 1966, the first specialist Caribbean publishing company in Britain, and subsequently Chairman of the George Padmore Institute.