First stand alone hardcover edition, and first edition with these illustrations. Signed by the author of the introduction, the illustrators and the photographer. Limited edition. Publisher's original grey cloth stamped in grey, in the Jim and Ruth Keegan illustrated dustwrapper and slipcase. With a frontispiece, full page colour plates and chapter heading illustrations by Jim and Ruth Keegan. Photographs by Patrick Loehr. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase. With the Centipede Press chapbook loosely inserted, as issued.
First published in 1979 as a paperback original by Signet (USA) and New English Library (UK), this Centipede Press issue is the first stand alone hardcover edition. Published in an edition of 500 copies, this example is numbered 428 and signed by Bev Vincent, Jim and Ruth Keegan and Patrick Loehr on the limitation page.
Stock code: 28823
£450