First edition. Octavo, pp 256. Grey cloth covered hard boards, silver lettering to the spine, and in the original un-clipped dust jacket which has a price sticker for 6/- over the original printed 16/- price. There is a small bookseller’s sticker (Harold Hockey, Bristol ) to the bottom of the front flap. Storey’s first novel, set in Northern England about a man trying to build his career in Rugby League.


Book is in Near Fine condition, unmarked internally, a little tanned to the spine; jacket is almost Fine, no fading to the spine. An uncommonly attractive copy.