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ITHELL COLQUHOUN GOOSE OF HERMOGENES, published by Peter Owen, First Edition (1st impression),1961, Hardcover, 115pp with a dust wrapper designed by the author, original white paper-covered boards with titles in gilt to the spine.This is her only novel which 'lurks somewhere between the territory of Beardsley and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast... shudderingly enjoyable' (The Guardian). A rare copy. The British author Muriel Spark began working as an editor for Peter Owen in the mid-1950s while waiting for her first novel to be published. She found this title 'almost impenetrable' to edit, but it has since been hailed as a key work in Surrealist and esoteric fiction and considered a 'Gothic' novel which took over twenty years to write. It tells the story of a girl lured to an island by her uncle to help him in his search for the Philosopher's Stone.