The Far-Distant Oxus

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.

New edition of a title first published in 1937. Publisher's red cloth with the superb and unclipped dust-wrappers. Review copy, with the publisher's slip tucked in at the front. Illustrations throughout the text; mapped endpapers front and back. A fine copy. A party of children go to stay in a farm house on Exmoor for the summer holidays where they meet with all sorts of adventures, mostly on horseback and rafts.