Permanent Errors

New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), multiple creases down the front flap, generally toned. Grey cloth, faded at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A collection of related stories divided into four parts, all of which "share a controlling effort--the attempt to isolate in a number of lives the central error of act, will, understanding which, once made, has been permanent, incurable, but whose diagnosis and palliation are the hopes of continuance.