The book is unread and unmarked and except to photograph it's contents unopened. The paper was made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia Italy. The four wonderful surreal lithographs were drawn by the author Ionesco and were printed on Fabriano 'Unbria' by Erker Presse Franz larese and Jurg Janett in St. This edition consists of one thousand copied of which this is #539. ‎New York: The Limited Editions Club 1987.

Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more 'please sign and return' request: 'This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!' All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu 1945-2019 of Columbus Ohio - known to many of his bookseller author and illustrator friends as 'Tubby.' He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired including Gorey Sendak Heaney Byatt Morrison Updike and many more.

This book is signed by the illustrator Etienne Delessert on the title-page. The contents are bright and clean with nice color illustrations. The covers show some light scuffing and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The DJ has the lower corner of the front flap clipped but with the price still intact on the upper corner. This book is hard-bound in green cloth with gray stamping to the upper cover and spine in a dust jacket with light scuffing edge-wear and light chipping to the spine-ends. ‎New York NY.: Harlin Quist Incorporated. ‎STORY NUMBER 1 FOR CHILDREN UNDER THREE YEARS OF AGE‎ United States Estados Unidos Estados Unidos États-Unis

Story Number 4 by Eugène Ionesco