A very good copy of this title Blue boards (VG++ with gilt titles to spine; a little tanning to endpapers, concomitant with age. Edges are a little grubby. Text is clean, bright and unmarked; binding is tight. Dustjacket jacket (unclipped, 7/6) i has some edge and shelf wear, a few small tears and and one significant tear across the back (see image) repaired with sticky tape (?by the previous owner) though without paper loss. "Utterly unlike anything this reader has encountered in Tomlinson before. A symbolic tale of a revolt against materialism, in the person of a middle-aged architect who lives in a mist of unreality. Newly returned from America, he happens on the information that a Greek temple on remote Colonna, faces imminent destruction, and he starts on a trek half round the world in a quixotic effort to save one bit of sheer beauty from the vandals of modernism. In the end he chooses extinction with the temple rather than going on with a mechanistic civilization. The plot i