First edition, first printing, stated First published in 1973 in a hardbound and paperbound edition by The Viking Press,. , 8vo (8 � x 6), pp. (6), (1-2), 3-760. Only 4000 copies of the first edition were issued hardbound; the remaining 16000 were published in soft cover. Original red lettered orange cloth, top edges orange, in original color pictorial dust jacket designed by Marc Getter. The dust jacket has printed price $15.00 in black and code 0273 in red on the front flap & the SBN 670-34832-5 number is printed on the back panel in white. Very good+ copy with cloth creases along the back-strip & foxing to the fore edge and to the endpapers. In a very good dust jacket with � inch closed tear at the foot of the rear panel back-strip, some creases to the panels & flap. H6645.