x, [2], 75, [4] pp. Introduction by Stephen King. Illustrated from photogaphs & facsimiles. 7½x10½, full navy blue leatherette, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth slipcase. One of 576 total copies printed, this being the "Binder's copy." First Edition.
Inscribed presentation copy, signed by the publisher Herb Yellin in the colophon to the book binder, "This copy belongs to the lovely & talented Marianna, for whom I have nothing but love and esteem, Herb Yellin." A tribute to authorial signatures and other autographed material, with original ink signatures and portraits of 43 participants in the project, including Stephen King, former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Robert Bloch, John Barth, Jim Harrison, Tony Hillerman, Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert B. Parker, James Purdy, John Updike, Eudora Welty, James Lee Burke, William Everson, and many others. There are facsimiles of autographed and manuscript material by Douglas MacArthur, Winston S. Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and other luminaries.