The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

San Franicsco: Arion Press, 1988. First printing of this edition. 620 pp. Fine in quarter-leather with marbled paper sides. No dust jacket, as issued. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase with a separate 42 pp essay by Melvyn New, “Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy.” Finally, there is a accordion-fold sequence of photo-collages by John Baldessari, the images paired with quotation from the text. One of 400 copies SIGNED by Baldessari.