First edition, first printing. 348pp, plus plate portrait frontispiece and several black and white plate illustrations. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth a little dull, gently rounded at corner and spine tips. Text block edges a little dull. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Now a very hard to find title, holdings in several specialist libraries including that of the British Cave Research Association. With Chapters on Robber's Roosts and the Purgatories; The Marble Heart of the Berkshires; Vermont's Caves and Other Holes; The Gory Gold Mine Murder; Indian Heaven and Other Connecticut Caves, etc.