Near-fine first edition, with slight impressions to top of boards. Previous owner's name and bookplate to front pastedown/flyleaf. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with some chipping to spine, and several short tears aong the edges.

Geneva. As a ferocious thunderstorm rages outside, behind the locked doors of the library the aristocratic Klopstocks are `not to be disturbed'. In the attic, Baron Klopstock's lunatic brother rants and raves. But in the staff quarters, all is under control. The butler and servants are making their own preparations for the long night that follows . . .