London: MacMillan, 1987. The first book in Banks's popular Culture Series. Amazon announced a TV adaptation in 2018, but this got cancelled in August 2020, it will probably just be time before these well loved stories makes it to our screens. Kept in a custom cloth clamshell. A very good book, square, but with dust staining to top edges and foxing on the edges. Toning to end-papers and signed by banks on the title page. Very good + DJ, bright with some toning on flaps and price sticker on front flap. Now with a brodart cover.