The Volcano God (2 volumes in 1)

New York: British Book Centre, 1959. Hardcover. VG-/Good (general bumping and wear to block edges, tanning to pages, dust jacket has tears, staining and overall wear). Tan cloth with red spine and gilt lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, Volume I is 520 pp, volume 2 is 368 pp, no illustrations. Signed by author to previous owner on black end pages. Volume 1. Saturnalia. The nomads. The dinner party.-- Volume 2. The roof-top. Eurasia. How the world began. "London during the blitz provides the background to this startling and monumental novel. Its characters, brought together by their visits to the REading Room of the British Museum, are ever more closely linked by the upheavals of War. Each one in his own way seeks the spiritual strength to meet the great crisis: the civil servant and his novelst wife, the y9oung scientist gathering top secret data, the anarchist, the young strangers from the New World. As they meet and they find love and friendship, antipathy and hate, and they vivedly debate their widely divergent views in a series of brilliant dialogues unequalled in contemporary literature for their scope and originality of presentation." -dust jacket. (Inventory #: 174468)