Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
AUSTRALIA: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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Published by Michael Joseph 1958
Published in Penguin Books 1961
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Copyright © H. E. Bates, 1958
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Richard Clay & Company, Ltd,
Bungay, Suffolk
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