Penguins 2142 - Absolute Beginners

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by MacGibbon & Kee 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1964

Copyright © Colin MacInnes, 1959

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Plantin

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