8vo, quarter yellow cloth over grey paper boards, grey titles, 806pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.50) with heavy wear to edges, miscellaneous closed tears and chipping, slight loss to spine crown and foot, heavy rubbing and toning to rear panel. Ownership signature, toning impression to front endpaper which bleeds onto front flap of dust jacket. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The author’s third book and his first in a turn towards literary postmodernism, a historical story of an English poet and tobacco peddler in seventeenth century colonial Maryland. Dust jacket design by Edward Gorey. A very good copy in a good plus, though still very bright and graphic dust jacket in mylar.