1981 First Edition Limited to 150 copies Inscribed on the front free endpaper ” For Daphne & Sarah with my warmest good wishes. Frank”   With a two page typed letter from Frank Oliver to Daphne.

Hardback 8vo  pp. 220 + colophon.  Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine some marks to cover  in fair dustwrapper. with pieces missing from front and back and wear to edges.

Oliver was born in England, moved to China at 20 and served as correspondent to the London Daily Express. He was later captured by the Communists and later by the Japanese. He later went to work in Washington, D.C.