Sewn hardback printed and bound by the Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in gold,with blue head and tailband. 250 numbered copies. (Out of print). Contents: Introduction by Claire Harman/ Some World Far From Ours/ Early One Morning/ The Salutation/ Over the Hill/ A Parting gift/ Perdita/ How to Succeed in Life/ The Son/ A Moral Ending/ This Our Brother/ The Holy War/ The Maze/ Elinor Barley/ The Best Bed/ Emily Short stories. The Salutation is one of Sylvia Townsend Warner's most sought after books, if only for the long title novella which is a sequel to her classic novel Mr Fortune's Maggot. It contains another long novella, "Elinor Barley", which "out-Hardys" Thomas Hardy, and a number of short stories which had been previously published in limited editions.