First edition. Large 8vo., original orange cloth, dust jacket. London, Hutchinson, 1979.
Inscribed by Hughes on the front free endpaper: “For Peggy, with our fondest love, Ted & Carol”. A very Iddesleigh book: Michael Morpurgo’s stepfather’s biography of Clare Morpurgo’s father. An excellent copy in a rubbed and browned dust jacket.
