Nunquam

First edition. 8vo, pp. 283, [1]. Bottle green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Pale blue dustjacket with transverse orange stripe, title in white (priced 30s £1.50 to front flap).

Name and date on front endpaper, brief note on quotation page, some pencil underlining in text, top edge rather dusty; else as new.

Listed in Neil Barron's "Core SF Collection". An overzealous scientist is enlisted to give flesh and blood to a CEO's lost love. A witty satire on the excesses of modern science. Companion volume to Tunc [1968], the second part of Durrell's Revolt of Aphrodite.

[Thomas & Brigham 47; Neil Barron (ed.), Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-361; Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516–1985, p. 324]