- Yellowed as usual; frontisp. portrait w. repaired tear; sellotape stain in inner margin of frontisp. and title-p.; vague waterstain in upper and lower blank margin; recased w. new endpapers. Covers rubbed and stained; damaged backstrip covered and reattached with tape. The vulnerable dustwr. sl. yellowed and worn and entirely backed w. thin Japanese paper, w. reattached pieces at the spine-ends (also w. scotch tape on recto) and flattened folds.

= Proloog-reeks. With a complete (although restored) copy of the extremely rare dustwrapper, and with the even more rare yellow belly band (frontside and frontflap only, also backed w. thin Japanese paper and missing tiny blank portion from 2 corners). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIV.