First published	1985
Publisher	The Donning Company
Format	Trade Paperback
Type	Nonfiction
ISBN	089865341X
Cover art	Jane Mackenzie
Pages	[12]+548

Notes

• "Donning Edition/March 1985" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
• The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1985), the ISBNs of three states: limited edition (0-89865-342-8), paperback (0-89865-341-X), hardcover (0-89865-373-8), and the LCCN (83-16298).
• "Editor for The Donning Company: Kay Reynolds" stated on the copyright page.
• "Cover portrait of the author by Jane MacKenzie" printed on the back cover.
• The ISBN and price of this edition is printed on the back cover.
• The twelve unnumbered pages before the Page 1 have been added to the record in order to place the Foreword.
• Contains 61 installments of Ellison's column "An Edge in My Voice", written from March, 1980 until August, 1984. Originally published in Future Life, the L.A. Weekly, and The Comics Journal.
• Most of the columns have introductory remarks of varying length titled "Interim Memo".
• Includes a foreword by Tom Snyder, an introduction and afterword by Ellison, and an extensive index (pp. 515-548).

The dates of the essays refer to when they were written.