"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Collins, 1971. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, cartographic endpapers printed in colour, illustrated dust-jacket by Richard Dalkins. A very good copy in price-clipped wrapper. Item #54569
Price: £30.00