People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning

1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel

Author

Raymond Williams

Publisher

Chatto & Windus, London, 1989

People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 15.5cm, 361pp.

People of the Black Mountain is a chronicle with a difference, alive with feeling, set within a night-long quest of a young man of today, searching for his grandfather lost on the high ridges. On the moonlit heights Glyn hears voices calling within him, voices which pull us back, over the rim of the years to the days of Marod and his family, sheltering in their caves and hunting horses in a misty Arctic summer. As Glyn follows the tracks the stories form a linking chain across the ages, from before the last Ice-Age to the fierce, defiant struggle against the invading Romans.

In one vast, breathtaking sweep is Raymond Williams' final novel, the story of the people of Wales and the borders, not over one or two generations but many thousands, from the very beginning of recorded time.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition for age, with a little light tanning to the pages' top edge. The wrapper has not been price-clipped and the book is free from inscription.