First edition (copyright page states "First published 1956," with no additional printings noted). Octavo (8 x 5.25 in.), 389 pp., brown textured paper boards, in dust jacket.
A very good to near fine copy, lightly bumped at bottom rear corner, and with light toning to endpages and edges of textblock. Unclipped "16/- net" jacket is very good, with a few short closed tears (and related creases), and some very small portions of loss at the top tips and crown of spine.
Altogether a fairly handsome first edition copy of the first of Renault's novels set in ancient Greece. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956.
