First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by John Prebble on the title page. 366pp, with several black and white plate illustrations, coloured maps on endpapers. Ochre cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on green relief on the spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge a little dust dulled. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, slightly shelf worn, dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at edges, bumped and nicked at the head of a lightly sunned spine.
