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First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Bill Botten illustrated dustwrapper. Red top-stain. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. The vivid red stop-stain bright and without fading. Complete with the very lightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. A very attractive example.

The author's fourth novel, and the first in the 'Empire Trilogy', preceding 'The Siege of Krishnapur' (1973) and 'The Singapore Grip' (1978). Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the so called "lost" Booker, awarded in 2010 after a decisive public vote, due to books published in 1970 being previously excluded for what would have been their eligible year following a rule alteration.