first edition Hardcover
1962 · London
by VERCORS
London: Hutchinson, 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated by Rita Barisse. A trifle foxed, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some erosion along the edge of the rear flap fold. Kafkaesque novel of a naked, beautiful but mentally incapacitated woman apparently raised by foxes, and who acts like a dog. When she turns up in the hedgerow of an isolated and bookish bachelor it gives new meaning to the phrase "fetching vixen. (Inventory #: 78667)