Notes: • "Signed First Edition" on title page • "This edition is strictly limited to a press run of 1,000 individually numbered copies" from laid-in Certificate of Authenticity • "Number ___ of 1,000" on the signature/limitation page • The CoA is signed and dated 8•30•1998, thus October is likely first availability • Also laid in is "a note about Distraction and the author" • No price or ISBN • "Frontispiece by Byron Taylor" on title page; the artwork is also signed