First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 259, [3]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; tan endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. A first printing with the "1" inadvertently omitted from the sequence of numbers by the printer, as some copies so state in a publisher's label affixed to the copyright page.
Signed by Heller to title page. Hint of toning to textblock edges, else Fine.
Author's memoir, from a carefree boyhood existence on Coney Island – in the care of a close-knit Jewish family – to the launch of a major literary career with the release of Catch-22 (1961). "Lovely, the best writing Heller has done since the book that made him famous. A joy." –Washington Post Book World