Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. (The first US was published in January, 2001 by Bantam.) Signed by Kerr on the title page. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Moderate bumping and jacket crinkling at top and bottom edges of spine panel, else fine (unread) copy in near fine jacket. Long out of print, the only copies usually available are ex-library, which this copy is not. Book Three of the Dragon Mage series, a thematic continuation of the Deverry cycle, and the eleventh volume in the larger series. Very nice full color, wrap-around jacket illustration by Geoff Taylor.