First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '135798642'. SIGNED by the author on the title page. John Banville writing as Benjamin Black. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine, and bottle green endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [4], 346. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.