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Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 The Solid Mandala
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Gwen and David Moore.
  • Epigraph: 'There is another world, but it is in this one.' - Paul Eluard 'It is not outside, it is inside: wholly within.' - Meister Eckhart '. . . yet still I long for my twin in the sun . . .' - Patrick Anderson 'It was an old and rather poor church, many of the ikons were without settings, but such churches are the best for praying in.' - Dostoevsky

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    • London,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Eyre and Spottiswoode ,       1966 .
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      Extent: 317p.
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      • Published 12 May 1966.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Viking ,       1966 .
      Extent: 309p.
      Reprinted: 1973
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      • Published February 1966.
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin ,       1969 .
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      Extent: 316p.
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      • Reprinted nine times by 1993 with Australian issues in 1972 and 1974 and 1981.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Avon Books ,       1975 .
      Extent: 312p.
      ISBN: 0380003759
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1983 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published 25 August 1983
      ISBN: 9780140029758
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1994 .
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published 1 February 1994
      ISBN: 9780140186338
      Series: Penguin Classics Penguin Books (publisher), series - publisher
    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Vintage UK ,       1995 .
      Extent: 316p.
      ISBN: 0099324415
Alternative title: Wezel
Language: Polish
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