Baen/PaperJacks, Markham, 1988, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-671-65435-7.  MMPB, 245 pages.  Wraps have some edge and cover wear, small corner bends and reading creases.  1 3/8” tear on lower wrap near spine, tiny split at lower front spine edge; binding sound with a slight bow.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages.  ‘It’s never easy being a knight, especially for practical Eudoric Dambertson, whose mind and temperament are better suited to trade than to the highly impractical demands of chivalry.  Take the simple matter of courting a wife.  To please his potential father-in-law, the enchanter Baldonius, the young man must bring back two square yards of dragon hide.  Only then can he earn his knightly spurs and the hand of the beauteous Lusina.  But battles with dragons always seem to go better in the ballads…’ (from rear wrap)