Map endpapers. Full blue cloth, front cover with black and gilt decoration, lettered in gilt, attached black ribbon bookmark, t.e.g., full cloth slipcase. First Limited Edition. No. 290 of 500 hand-numbered copies.

Signed by the author on limitation page. With a small distribution, this special limited edition was intended for friends of the publisher and for booksellers who made the book a big success; apparently none were originally produced for sale. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award.