First American Edition with printing sequence line '10987654321'. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Publisher's black paper covered boards quarter cloth with gilt lettering to spine and impressed signature of the author to the front board. Clear, archival protective sleeve fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [xii], 562 with 32 pages of photographic illustrations. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.