Sword Song (The Saxon Stories, Book IV)

First edition, first printing.  vi, vi, 320pp, with map.  In black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.  Grey, decorated endpapers.  8vo.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illiustrated dust wrapper, gently bumped on edges.  

Cornwell's Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales or Saxon Chronicles) is a series of historical novels set in the time of the birth of England in the 8th and 9th centuries.  This is the fourth title in the series.  The first ten novels in the series were adapted for a television series called The Last Kingdom.