"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman
First edition, first printing of Feynman's first book for a popular audience and one of the most popular scientific memoirs of all time, being a collection of reminiscences edited from taped conversations between Feynman and his drumming partner Ralph Leighton. In the first state jacket with just two blurbs to the back panel.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. A spot of abrasion to the lower front board, else light general shelfwear to boards, light foxing to edges of text block with some spotting to bottom edge. Minor foxing to endpapers, else internally clean with no markings. Jacket shows a bit of wear with light creasing at the top of the front panel. A presentable copy protected in archival mylar.