First UK edition, first printing (previously published in the USA under the title Rigger's Apprentice. viii, 184pp, copiously illustrated throughout. Orange cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titles to spine. 4to. Cloth just a little pushed at spine ends. Hint of shadowing on endpapers else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, a little rubbed and bumped at edges, scuffed at the head of a lightly sunned spine.
