Yes, as much as it may pain those purchasers of the orignal edition of this fine work, this second, deluxe edition is  nicer. The page size is larger, the pages are deckle-edged and the gold embossed cloth cover with inlaid cover image on a debossed rectangle make for a swellegant package.  So, basically, those of you who missed out on the original are the lucky ones!   Experience this masterful Jim Woodring work composed of deftly drawn, finely controlled, black and white pantomime comics filled with hallucinatory images from a dreamworld that seems to exist just on the other side of the page...