Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Chatto & Windus 1943
Published in Peregrine Books 1963
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Copyright © John Wain 1959
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Cox & Wyman Ltd
London, Reading and Fakenham
Set in Monotype Bembo
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