1st edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth, a little faded at the spine ends and board edges, endpapers and pages clean, foxing to the text blocks, in a lightly rubbed dustjacket, not price-clipped, which has a chip at the spine heel, some conservation work at spine and extremities, and a slightly faded spine. The author's first and best-known novel in her series of books about Roman Britain, a first impression, extremely scarce.