Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1966, believe 1^st; 1^st edition stated, but ‘Book Club Edition’ is stamped at bottom of front inner flap; code H35 appears at bottom gutter of last page.  Hard cover, 184 pages.  Very good; blue cloth with gilt lettering on black cloth spine; light edge, corner and spine wear; binding tight with headbands; deckled fore-edge.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge, corner and spine wear, light rubs and impressions; one very short tear on front panel near top spine edge.  Jacket design by Diane Whitebay, illustration by Tomi Ungerer, photo of Author on rear panel by Blake Edwards.  Interior pages clean and unmarked; some off-setting in front and rear gutters.  ‘What does the Air Force do with an astronaut who announces during countdown that he is “sick of being used!” and then refuses to go to the moon because “it might be bad for his skin!”?  What does the Air Force do with a pilot who wants to adapt the plays of Shakespeare for an all-canine cast and “cannot abide a dog that lisps”? … it collects them in a rest camp under the command of a top psychologist, Colonel Hudson Kane.  But then the mystery only deepens.  For who is Colonel Kane?’ (from front flap)