Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 339 pages. "Probes compassionately into the life history of a woman in pursuit of love. The moment in time which is decisive for Lucy Crown and which irrevocably changes the entire pattern of her own, her husband's and her son's lives arrives when, on summer holiday, unexpectedly and almost by accident, she finds herself involved with a man much younger than herself." (from the jacket). Musty odor.