1st UK edition (published in the USA the preceding year). 198pp, with a few line drawings in text. In deep green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth very gently rounded at spine ends. A little spotting on text block edges and first and last few pages. In its original worn dust jacket, rubbed at edges and over spine, bumped along upper edge, spine sunned, with some faded and staining on verso. A novel of intrigue and prophecy set in AD432, as Patrick, the first Bishop from Rome to Ireland, arrives in a pagan land whose spiritual life is dominated by druids.
