First edition, first printing. 240pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth very slightly bruised at spine ends). Hint of creaminess on pages else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped along edges). 8vo. When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, learns that Princess Casilia, his primary patron, is in serious trouble, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid, not realising he is taking the first step to a violent battle.
