First edition, first printing. 282pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at spine ends. Upper text block edge a tad dust dulled. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original edge worn and creased dust wrapper, chapped around spine head and slightly so at spine base, signs of old tape repairs on interior. Dust wrapper now protected in a Mylar-style clear plastic sleeve fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
