Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to dust-jacket. A couple of 5mm chips at corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; [iv], 88, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 120mm. Dust-jacket illustration and frontispiece by John Piper. ""Mr. Scott-King is a middle-aged schoolmaster; ""an adult, an intellectual, a classical scholar, almost a poet;"" he has found his affinity, his special subject, in an obscure seventeenth century poet, Bellorius, who dimly lived in that part of the Habsburg Empire which is now the totalitarian state of Neutralia."" - from dust-jacket blurb.