By Robert L. Shapiro, with Larkin Warren. One hopes said search includes whoever told Shapiro that was an acceptable necktie, but jokes aside, like many of these Simpson postmortems, this first printing appears to have been purchased with good intentions but never read.
That's how the book looks, anyway -- some shelfwear to the jacket, the outside of the pages is a bit dusty, but looks new inside, no marks or dog-ears. And at full price, it probably wasn't worth spending the time, but at previously-owned prices...