First edition, first printing. vi, vi, 320pp, with map. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Green, decorated endpapers. 8vo. Minor bump to lower rear corner, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, lightly bumped on lower corners and slightly rubbed on extreme edges. A very nice, presentable copy.
Cornwell's Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales or Saxon Chronicles) is a series of historical novels set in the time of the birth of England in the 8th and 9th centuries. This is the third volume in the series. The first ten novels in the series were adapted for television under the title The Last Kingdom.