Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1969, BCE.  Hard cover, 280 pages.  Good; light edge and cover wear; binding sound with headbands; foxing on top page block and inner board edges.  Dust jacket fair showing edge and cover wear, with short edge tears, some stains and old water marks.  Interior pages clean and unmarked; deckled fore-edge.  ‘The heroine … is an ordinary woman of 39 (house in a development, four children, salesman husband) fearful of – and struggling to shelter her family from - both a world she perceives as a world on fire and her own consuming emotions.’ (from front flap)