The Queens and The Hive

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

First published by Macmillan 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © the estate of Dame Edith Sitwell, 1962

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Fakenham, and Reading Set in Monotype Garamond

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