8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 726pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (15.00) heavily rubbed to panels, chipping to spine crown and flap edges, soil mark to corner edge of rear flap. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Circular soil mark to top edge of last fifty pages or so of text. The much anticipated second novel by the author of the Recognitions, a fantastical satire of American corporatism. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A very good copy in a good dust jacket in mylar.