First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by the author and illustrator S. H. Sime. Complete with the rare dust wrapper, chipped at the extremities with some loss. This copy is additionally inscribed to Oliver St. John Gogarty on the front end paper by the author.Recently reprinted by the Folio Society with a forward by Neil Gaiman, this is a founding novel of the fantasy genre - one whose prose and poetry, whose unicorns and witches and trolls, would inspire authors from J.R.R Tolkien to Ursula K. Le Guin.