"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership invitation loose to preliminaries. Some rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. Originally published in French in 1963, comprising 'Malvenue' and 'Marie the Wolf.' Durrell describes Seignolle's Gothic style as '... at once curious, poetic and also realistic.'. Item #57079
Price: £65.00