Mount Analogue, René Daumal
First UK edition, first printing of Daumal's classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism. Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the story, which ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence. The remnants of the unfinished story were first published posthumously in French in 1952, and this was the first English translation, preceding the American edition.
London: Lyle Stuart, 1959. Publisher's original light blue cloth; pp. (vi), 106. An about near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy and square, light sunning and foxing to board extremities, top edge of text block foxed, a few minor stains to front boards, internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows minor shelfwear and foxing, protected in archival mylar. Uncommon.