VGC.Methuen,1995.First UK edition-first printing.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages but with two colour line marks inside the page 258,light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages,small mark on the edge of the last blank page of the book.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.280pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: Michael Palin's first novel is the story of Martin Sproale, a mild and conventional assistant postmaster in his mid-thirties who lives in an English coastal town. The only remarkable thing about him is an obsession with the life, work and personality of Ernest Hemingway.