Unpaginated. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine; bevelled edges. Bumped spine ends. Pages margins starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring some occasional foxing. Dust jacket has two closed tear at top of front, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. The novelist and short story writer turns his pen to his first love and his adopted county's life and times into the modern age. Photographs by John Gay. Coloured illustrated map endpapers. 4to.