Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published in the U.S.A. 1958
Published in Great Britain by Gollancz 1958
Published in Penguin Books 1963
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Copyright © Peter De Vries, 1958
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd
Aylesbury and Slough
Set in Linotype Juliana
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