Ex Officio [Signed bookplate laid in]

New York / Philadelphia: M. Evans and Company / J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. New York / Philadelphia: M. Evans and Company / J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21.7cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in red cloth and blue cloth spine with dark blue and gilt lettering; [viii],498pp. Jacket a bit shelfworn with rubbing at spine ends and some smudging and toning to surface. Spine sunned. Boards are square with bumping at spine ends and dulling to lettering. Toning and foxing to top edge of textblock. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Publisher's "with compliments" card tipped in at half title. Bookplate signed by Culver loosely laid in at front.