Penguins C2280 - Gun Before Butter

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

First published by Victor Gollancz 1963 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Nicolas Freeling, 1963

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hunt Barnard & Co. Ltd, Aylesbury

Set in Monotype Times

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