First edition, first printing. 282pp. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (text block edges mildly darkened). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight). In its original dust jacket (some minor shelf wear, lightly bumped on upper leading corner). Dust jacket now protected in a slightly tatty Brodart-style wrapper, not adhered in any way. 8vo.