ELLIS, Bret Easton. American Psycho. London: Picador. 1998. 8vo. First edition, second impression. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the striking dust jacket. This copy near fine, the cloth clean and bright, with only very gentle bumps to tips. The binding tight and square, with some light marks to the textblock edges, but none of the toning one usually finds at the top edge. The contents fine throughout, also without any toning. The dust jacket priced £14.99 as called for on the second printing, gently bumped to extremities, the spine just very slightly toned but very marginal, and much less noticeable than usual. All in, an excellent example.
A very smart second printing of the UK edition, the first English hardcover edition, of Ellis’ major work and a classic of modern fiction. The first hardcover edition—the American first of 1991 a paperback original—and the only hardcover in English until Centipede Press’ recent rendition. The basis for the equally impressive, not-quite-but-still-very-much-violent film adaptation starring Christian Bale.
ELLIS, Bret Easton. American Psycho. London: Picador. 1998. 8vo. First edition, second impression. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the striking dust jacket. This copy near fine, the cloth clean and bright, with only very gentle bumps to tips. The binding tight and square, with some light marks to the textblock edges, but none of the toning one usually finds at the top edge. The contents fine throughout, also without any toning. The dust jacket priced £14.99 as called for on the second printing, gently bumped to extremities, the spine just very slightly toned but very marginal, and much less noticeable than usual. All in, an excellent example.
A very smart second printing of the UK edition, the first English hardcover edition, of Ellis’ major work and a classic of modern fiction. The first hardcover edition—the American first of 1991 a paperback original—and the only hardcover in English until Centipede Press’ recent rendition. The basis for the equally impressive, not-quite-but-still-very-much-violent film adaptation starring Christian Bale.
