Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, N.d. [1955]

Small 8vo, pp. 276. Original black boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.

Later edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN:' To TERENCE Milligan, With best wishes and for good memory From Lala and Vladimir Dubinin. October 6, 1959.' MILLIGAN HAS ADDED BENEATH: '-- on board the Williem Ruys -- from Russian Diplomatic party who got on at Wellington. New Zealand'.

Science fiction novel, first published in 1923 -- although of course, the association is the thing. (Milligan spent four months in Australia in 1959, where a second series of his TV show Idiot Weekly had been commissioned.)

Keywords: Alexei TOLSTOI Spike MILLIGAN"