First edition in English, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Jan Pienkowski illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge pink. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the extremities, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good, lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned and scuffed to the fold edges and a little toned to the spine. Not price-clipped (21s net to the lower front flap). Scarce.
The multi-award winning Hungarian author's second book to be published in the English language. Translated from the Hungarian by Kathleen Szasz.
Stock code: 29466
£175