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BRUNNER,JOHN [KILIAN HOUSTON]**: : The Crutch of Memory.**

LONDON.BARRIE & ROCKLIFF,1964.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG-.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.4-colour block,pictorial illustrated upper panel and spine/backstrip,with red,yellow and white letters,by Barbara Walton,b/w publishers advert+critics' reviews of other titles to rear panel.Minimal shelf- wear to bottom edges,but some creasing to top edges with some minimal bumping and reciprocal creasing and a couple of small nicks with minimal loss to head of spine/ backstrip.Dw/dj internally darkened to some edges with an internal water-stain (?) to head of spine/backstrip which has bled through - though the boards are unaffected.Top edge lightly aged and lightly dust-soiled with some miniscule foxing; fore-edge slightly more darker and aged but again with miniscule foxing; contents bright,tight and generally clean with minimal sporadic foxing.Virtually unblemished,light tan paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped black ink letters to spine/backstrip and generally clean,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-246pp. Hugh Collins came to Greece for a holiday.He was twenty-five, personable and successful, and drove across Europe to be a tourist in this welcoming but inscrutable land.Quite casually he came together with Wendy Drake,young and pretty, competently hitch-hiking.She, a happy, natural person,was deeply puzzled by Hugh's withdrawn and complex emotions and with single-minded purpose set out to find the answer to them,because she hated things that stunted people and made them miserable.By the time she had succeeded, by the time she had shown Hugh a truth he had hidden from himself since childhood, even Wendy's gaeity and self-assurance were reduced to tears.Hugh and Wendy were made loving prisoners by the harsh land of Greece,where the people were and remain civilised to a depth northerners find incredible.For Hugh,the arid personal failure behind his outward success could be rectified only by his final response to the austere command made by Greece: know thyself! This book can be read in several ways.A love story in an exotic setting,a travel book recording a voyage of self- discovery,a psychological novel treating a major sexual problem with insight and sympathy,but as any of these it is to read with increasing excitement and pleasure. One of Britain's most prominent and prolific authors in the sci-fi genre - converted to it by early readings of H. G. Wells - he had written and published his first novel by 17.His American debut was with 'Thou Good and Faithful' in Astounding,in 1953.In 1958 he was actively involved in the CND,subsequently touring many countries to further its cause.It was from a visit to Greece in 1960,that this novel is inspired.This is the author's first general and non sci-fi novel. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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