If you are considering it, you need it!!
This is my very favorite book about mushrooms!
Very educational and inspiring (I still harbor the dream to cultivate my own mushrooms one day!). Mine had soft cover and mostly black & white photographs throughout, except for 24 colored pages in the middle.
I am now a big fan of Paul Stamets and his work, wish I could go see his farm on a tour!
This book I first got in the library and realized I want to have it at hand and ordered at Alibris. It was a bit more expensive then books I got used to ordering but gosh, it was well worth it!