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Robert Bloch. Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition, first printing stated on the copyright page...
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Robert Bloch. Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition, first printing stated on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper recto, "Why, she wouldn't even / harm a fly / Robert Bloch." Octavo. 185 pages. Publisher's black paper over boards backed in white cloth, spine lettered in red; original dust jacket designed by Tony Palladino. Very minor edgewear. Cream endpapers; somewhat foxed, small ownership sticker label to front free endpaper recto. Internally generally clean and tight, top edge trimmed, other edges rough trimmed; text block toned, minor dampstaining chiefly to front and back of text block and margins, minor text block edge wear and soiling. Dust jacket unclipped ($2.95); minor edgewear, edges somewhat discolored from early dust jacket cover, somewhat foxed, foxed and dampstained to verso. Very good book with very good dust jacket."Psycho is a genre masterpiece which set the pattern for the psychological suspense-horror novel" (Barron).
Barron, Horror, 4-46 (First Purchase Title); Currey, 46; Hubin II (1994), page 80. From the Gary Munson Collection
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2021 October 14 The Gary Munson Collection of Horror and Fantasy Rare Books Auction #31172 (go to Auction Home page)
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