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

London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without reviews to jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.250 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey illustrated dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy internally, with some light chipping to jacket edges, toning to jacket spine, and a few toned spots to jacket covers. Price-clipped. Very good. The second book in the Alexandria Quartet, following 'Justine' (1957). Item #57518
Price: £175.00