Macmillan, New York, 1968, BCE.  Hard cover, 309 pages including Index.  Blue boards with gold lettering on spine.  Bit of edge, corner and spine end wear; a few small spots on boards.  Binding sound with head and tail bands.  Deckled fore-edge; outer page blocked sunned.  Dust jacket shows edge and cover wear, small losses and tears; old water mark at lower spine end.  Illustrated endpapers; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘This is the strange, true, yet almost incredible story of a small French village where in 1951 hundreds of respectable townspeople went totally mad on a single night. …  Piece by piece, the story behind the tragedy in Pont-St.-Esprit … unfolded to the doctors, the gendarmerie, and the toxicologists.’ (from front flap)