London: Gollancz, 1984

8vo, pp. 278. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. The usual light age-toning to text block, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust jacket, publisher's price label affixed to front flap.

First edition in the first issue dust jacket, with two reviews (from Graham Greene and Angela Carter) to rear panel.

Filmed in 1987 by Stephen Spielberg, with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard and a cast including John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and, as the young boy, a 13-year-old Christian Bale.