8vo. xi, [1], 339pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a further 23 photographic illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle marked and rubbed. Pictorial endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: 'For Bryan / very best wishes - & memory of ENSA / Dirk'.

The first edition of the second volume of autobiography from actor and author Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999). The present copy is inscribed to fellow actor Bryan Matheson, with whom Bogarde served in the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during the Second World War.