London: Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1985

8vo, pp. 212. Original yellow boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, artwork by Suzanne Perkins, author's photographic portrait to rear flap. Text block age-toned (as always), otherwise a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some sunning to spine lettering.

First edition of Mantel's first published novel. (Mantel completed A Place of Greater Safety in 1979, but it wasn't published until 1992.)