First US edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel, in the Bip Pares designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Small Parisian bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Softening to spine tips. In the fine original dustwrapper, which, except for a 1 cm closed tear to the outer edge of the rear panel, some light rubbing to corners, and minimal soiling to folds, is remarkably bright, clean and sharp. A very attractive copy.
"How to dispose of a priceless document whose value could not be immediately realized was the problem confronting the six men who had illegally gained possession of the Boothroyd formula" (from the jacket). (Hubin).
Stock code: 21267
£110