8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; xii - 138 pp. Black cloth over boards with light blue lettering on the spine. Kolakowski wrote this book in 1966 though it was first published in France (1972) due to the censorship in Poland, as "Obernosc mitu". Then translated from the original Polish into German in 1973 and now translated into English by Adam Czerniawski. Two page index of names at the back.