First American Edition (so stated) in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - very faint foxing to endpapers, no names, writing or marks. Illustrations by A. H. Eisner. 120 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), has 1/4" chip at top spine edge, a few short closed edge tears. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.