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Der Versprechen published by Peter Schifferli Verlag, Zürich, 1958 This translation published in the U.S.A. by Alfred A. Knopf 1959 Published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1959 Reissued by Jonathan Cape 1967 Published in Penguin Books 1964
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