First edition, first printing. 248pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth very slightly bruised at spine ends, mild crease along spine). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly bumped along edges). 8vo. Philip Nore, steeplechase jockey, asks nothing more from life than to be able to race and for time to spend on his other obsession, photography. Unfortunately, for Nore, it is not to be as a minefield of problems explode before him.