1984. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Signed by the author with dedication to Ray Cross on front free endpaper. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pink annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minorsunning to spine and edges.