First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Graham Thompson illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with rubbing to the extremities and a touch of fading to the spine and board edges. The contents with a few spots to the text-block fore-edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£9.95 net to the front flap).
Signed by Tom Holt in blue ink on the title page. The author's third novel and first work of humorous fantasy. Tom Holt also writes fantasy fiction under the pseudonym K. J Parker.
Stock code: 27680
£100
London: Macmillan.
1987