Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in nearly pristine DJ. Ex-library, properly de-accessioned, with expected stamps, labels, marks, paste-downs and protections. Possibly the first Amercan edition, issued in 1972 in the UK. Harper did not differentiate between reprints, even when importing a title. 

This book is quite scarce in commerce: we found one copy offered. 

Two loners who share an attraction to ""those strange and lovely places,"" the Yorkshire moors, are brought together here in another of Joan Tate's tactful, low-keyed English working class friendships. Even though Mart, who has left school and a series of orphanages behind him, tries for a time to live in a makeshift shelter on the moors, his spirit is freest when he's running full tilt through the crowded city streets. And though he is accepted into Will's family, and even learns to read there while recovering from an illness contracted during his nights on the damp moors, Martin remains an enigma to Will and to us. A brief, but special understanding between Yorkshire lad and London waif. Guarded. Laconic. Nice. . .precisely because Tate is content just to leave it at that.