Signet/New American Library, Toronto, December 1965, 1st pr thus.  P2807.  MMPB, 127 pages.  Wraps have some edge and cover wear, score on front wrap near spine onto spine; light corner crease, some stress lines and age toning/spots; binding tight; outer page block tinted red with age spotting on upper block.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘a novel of awesome adventure.  It is the stirring story of a leader, last of a doomed species of flightless birds.  It is the dramatic chronicle of a monarch who survived the onslaught of his natural enemies, of storms and sharks and killer whales…only to fall prey to a pitiless executioner-Man.’ (from rear wrap)