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True first edition, first printing. Published by Secker & Warburg of London in 1980, preceding the South African edition of 1981. Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Clean, bright, unmarked, and firmly bound. Unclipped dust jacket is clean but heavily sunfaded, with spine turned white and with offsetting to both front and rear panels.

A novel set in an unnamed empire, where an imperial magistrate grapples with the moral implications of colonialism and oppression.