Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Victor Gollancz 1946
Published in Penguin Books 1962
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Copyright © J. I. M. Stewart, 1946
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Made and printed in the Netherlands
by N. V. Drukkerij Bosch
Utrecht
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