Product Description
By Robert B.
[Brown] Parker.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.
First edition, first printing.
"First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1974 to the title page, $5.95 and 0174 date code to the jacket's flap.
SIGNED to the title-page, by the two-time Edgar, Grand Master Edgar, Maltese Falcon, and Gumshoe Lifetime Awards winning late author.
Parker's debut novel and the first entry in the multi-film and multi-TV adapted mystery series featuring ex-State Trooper, Korean war Veteran, now Boston private detective, Spenser.
In this impressive detective mystery launch, Spenser is hired to figure out who the real killer is, and recover a stolen 14th century illuminated manuscript.
An exceptionally well-preserved SIGNED first printing.
Fine, firm, square, and tight in fresh cinnamon-brown linen with dark-brown embossed Paul Bacon 'G' art to the front cover, gilt embossed titles and dark-brown decorations to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, brown-sand end-papers, upper page edges a bright blood-peach; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with illuminated letter murder scene art by Paul Bacon, with a touch of light tan age-lines to the lower spine panel joints, and a minuscule crimp to the upper spine edge.
NO remainder mark.
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