8vo 8" - 9" tall; 610 pages; [SIGNED] 1956 World Publishing Company. Slipcased hardcover; issued in a limited edition of 500 signed copies, 325 available to the trade. Snugly bound and neat in blue quarter cloth backed spine and red cloth sides with title design in gilt and white. Teh limioted edition was issued with a scarcely seen galssine dust jacket; copies with pictoriqal dust jackets have had the jacket added after the fact. In publisher's medium slate blue paper covered slipcase. Cloth with just superficial sunning at spine. Structurally sound and neat slipcase has thin areas of sunning top edge and to the edges of the open end along with some mild silverfish predation to the closed end and adjacent edges. Copies of this limited edition were not assigned a number. One of 325 signed copies published for the trade. Overall VG or better; Signed by Author.