The Time Before This

HARDBACK "NEARLY FIFTY YEARS OLD" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1962 (1962)* Publisher: Cassell for The Book Club.* Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, blank title to spine label. Minimal bumps, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. VG+* Jacket condition: Black & white, purple and green illustrated paper dust wrapper showing a bearded man in an ice-scape, a shelf price of 12/6d. to front flap. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. No losses but overall very slightly rubbed & aged. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top edge slightly aged, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 127 pp. text. iiipp. Blank at rear.* Description: The great ice-mountain towered above the northern coast by Bylot Island, its peak shaped to peerless symmetry by a million years, piercing the hard metallic blue of the Canadian Arctic sky. One slope of the ice-wall had eroded, leaving bare a natural pathway, curving into the mountainside. Shepherd, long attracted to the shimmering beauty of the giant, took the pathway through the walls, turned the last corner ? and came face-to-face with the time before this?.* A NEAR VERY GOOD++ copy with some minor age & wear reducing it to VG+. Wrapper in protective jacket.*