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First published by Chatto & Windus 1959
Published in Peregrine Books 1977
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Copyright © George D. Painter, 1959
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Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Monotype Ehrhardt
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