NY: Columbia University Press, 1986. First edition. v, 292pp. White cloth; metallic green spine titles; dust jacket. Light soiling to board edges. Else fine in a very good unclipped jacket, with short closed tears at head of spine and base of front panel.
First English-language edition of this 1951 novel by French writer Julien Gracq (1910-2007), for which he refused the Prix Goncourt. Translated by Richard Howard.
