The Adding Up

First edition, first printing. 288pp. In bright blue cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Cloth just a little rounded at spine ends. Upper text block edge dusty. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, slightly rubbed at spine ends, off-white on verso. The story of a young Edinburgh slum-born boy who becomes almost mythical in his own lifetime through his involvement with adventures in African politics.