Condition Continued: There is one thin placeholder crease. I didn't see any other creasing. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. There is a small loss off the top edge of the front cover and two tiny ones off the top edge of the rear cover. The spine is somewhat toned and has a couple of small whitish spots. The flaps are in very solid shape, no conspicuous soiling, no tears or losses. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Etienne Leroux. Translated from Afrikaans by Charles Eglington. Stated 'First Printing, First American Edition 1967.'
From the dust jacket: 'With the South African publication of this novel, the first in a trilogy, Etienne Leroux was hailed as his country's most brilliant and original novelist and attacked as an immoralist. When the book received the Herzog Prize in 1964-- the highest Afrikaans literary award-- it became the center of a furious nation-wide controversy that has not yet abated. Its publication in the United States marks the first appearance of abroad in English of an extraordinary writer who deserves wide and serious attention. The translator Charles Eglington is one of South Africa's foremost English poets and critics.'
Several of Leroux's books, to his credit, were banned by the government of South Africa.