1961 First Edition Hardback  8vo  pp 64.  Dark grey boards with silver spine titles very good condition owners signature on front endpaper.  In good unprice clipped dust jacket with small tears to front and back, top & bottom of spine chipped.  Jacket design by Peter Forster.

Publication date is stated as 1961, which pre-dates other copies stated as first editions but dated 1962.

George Robert Ackworth Conquest was a  major figure in a prominent British literary circle known as “The Movement” which also included Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis he was also a historian who became a well known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union.

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