The King Must Die

Fourth impression. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a hint of creaminess on endpapers. In its original dust jacket (bumped at edges with a ew flat creases, rubbed at spine ends with minor loss). 8vo. A fictionalised narrative reconstructing the drama of a youthful Thesues, seen as a boy-king in Eleusis, and doomed by the ancient matriarchal earthcult to die after a year’s marriage to a sacred Queen.