First edition. xx, 216pp. Brown publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Mustard endpapers. 8vo. Cloth slightly pushed at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, very slightly bumped on lower edge. Dust wrapper now protected in Mylar-style wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
A record of the anecdotes, sayings and view of Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian man of letters, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.