Cloth-backed boards, original mailing box. First Edition.
A unique copy, once belonging to a representative of the publisher and signed by approximately 50 authors and other celebrities at their birth dates. Signatures include: Joan Walsh Anglund (with sketch), Robert K. Massie, Suzanne Massie, Stuart Woods, Edmund White, Thomas Hoving, Robert Olen Butler, Reynolds Price, Josephine Humphries, Richard Ford, Andre Norton, Thomas Sanchez, Theodor Seuss Geisel (also signed as Dr. Seuss), Carl Hiaasen, Madison Jones, Gloria Swanson, T.R. Pearson, Eudora Welty, Marcella Hazan, Harry Reasoner, Kaye Gibbons, Betty Miles, Studs Terkel, Margot Fonteyn, Barbara Goldsmith, Clyde Edgerton, William Styron, Allan Gurganus, James Hall, Larry Brown, John Gardner, Burke Davis, Jan Berenstain, Jim Davis (with sketch), Jill St. John, Ray Bradbury, Michael Hague (with sketch), Lauren Bacall, Stan Berenstain, Anne Rice, Gloria Norris, Barry Moser, Minnie Pearl, Fred Marcellino, Fran Lebowitz, Gyo Fujikawa, Alistair Cooke, Elizabeth Berg, Bill Diehl, Jim Harrison, Quentin Crisp, and Mercer Mayer.