Tortoiseshell & Black, Toronto, 1996, 1^st.  ISBN 1-896901-00-X.  Trade size soft cover, 61 pages including Glossary, plus about the author and Acknowledgments.  Illustrated wraps show light edge and cover wear; score from spine edge to upper edge on front, small ding at top edge, tiny corner bends; faint reading creases along front spine edge; binding tight.  Green end papers; inscribed and signed by author on half-title page to prior owner; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Black & white illustrations by Richard Kirk.  ‘Venright is a wondrous stranger.  His exotic writing brings us closer to an omelette – a sunny homage to surrealist delectation.  We hallucinate a windmill when we read these gems of linguistic psilocybin.-(Christian Bok)  Venright is here practicing a lost magical art … invoking states of consciousness that we all feared extinct.-(Michael Dean)’ (from rear wrap)