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Australia: Penguin Books Pty, Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Gollancz 1956
Published in Penguin Books 1963
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Made and printed in the Netherlands
by N.V. Drukkerij Bosch Utrecht,
Set in Monotype Baskerville
NOTE My description of the subterranean economy of the Bodleian Library is entirely fanciful. R. R.
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