London: W. H. Allen, LTD., 1971. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Ismail Kadare on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; in unclipped dust jacket. Near Fine with light fading to spine ends Foxing to jacket, textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. Jacket spine is toned. One of the leading literary figures in Albania, this is Kadare's first novel.