Henry Holt, New York, 1998, 1^st Ed/pr.  ISBN 0-8050-5533-9.  Hard cover, 472 pages including Glossary and Acknowledgments.  Very good; wear along edges, spine ends lightly bumped; binding sound with headbands; hint of age spotting on outer page block.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge wear primarily at corners and spine ends, small scrape along rear fold, small scratches at bottom front panel.  Book interior clean and unmarked; map end papers.  ‘One hundred and sixty years ago, a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo.  The world that resulted, … eventually encompassed a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads.  … A small tribe of fugitives, adventurers, criminals, and saints – the madly talented and the simply mad – peopled this world.  This is their story.’ (from front flap)