Collection of Clarke's essays. Each essay has note from the editor and many are extended with introduction paragraph(s) by the author.
- Stated: "First Edition: August 1999"
- First printing by number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).
- "Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee"
- "Jacket photograph courtesy of Archive Photos / Popperfoto"
- There is a 16-page insert of B&W photographs between pages 238 and 239.
- Starting on page 541 there are the sources, the index and note about author and editor.
"Rough Cut" technique used. Gives the book a unfinished, vintage or unique look, but this applies to all copies of this edition - at least all of the first printing.
- Locus1 mistakenly has the page count as 358.
