Tar Baby

New York: Knopf; Random House, 1981. First edition, third printing (Tawainese pirate ed.). Octavo in red cloth in green dust jacket (white spine); $11.95 on dust jacket; 305 pp., 22 cm. Near fine in very good, unclipped dust jacket; DJ is lightly worn around the edges with a few small chips along the edges and at the corners and light soil and rubbing to back cover; verso dust jacket is lightly soiled; very light bumped spine ends; upper open corners of a few leaves are very lightly bumped; o/w pages are clean and bright; binding is square; hinges are tight; a gently used copy. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

In English. First edition, third printing; a Borzoi Book. Taiwan pirate edition, with Chinese characters to copyright page. Uncommon thus.