ANTS ON THE MELON

New York: Random House, 1996. First edition. An unusual copy in that it has two jackets, one supplied. The jacket as published is on uncoated red textured paper and priced at $21. The supplied jacket is coated and is priced at $20, and stamped on back "PROOF". (These are generally only for internal use in advance of publication.) The original jacket is slightly crimped at the front, but still near fine; the supplied jacket is fine. Not really an issue point as the jacket was never "pulished", but as most of these jackets would not have survived (and would have been produced in small numbers to begin with) an interesting advanced state of the jacket. The book itself is very fine.