Hardcover first edition, first printing and first US edition. (First published in 1992 in the UK by Macdonald.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Carroll is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Land of Laughs, Bones of the Moon and Sleeping in Flame. "[Carroll] has produced oddly affecting novels, always walking an uneasy tightrope between literary affectation and all-out horror." - Maxim Jakubowski, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide, Neil Barron (ed), 1990, pg. 232.