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Bloch, Robert Psycho London Robert Hale 1960 First Edition Hard Cover Fair in Good dust jacket; First UK edition. First printing. Black boards with green titles on spine "Sam's Science Fiction [...]" book exchange rubber stamp on half-title page and title page. Owner's signature. Adhesive tape stains to endpapers. Front free endpaper torn out. Label partly removed from rear free endpaper. Moderate browning to page edges. Some adhesive tape stains to boards. Light vertical crease to spine cloth. Heavy rubbing to edges of dust wrapper spine. Moderate rubbing and creasing to margins of dust wrapper. 3/4" and 3/8" chips at head and tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" surface chip to front panel of dust wrapper where a sticker has been removed. No tape repairs to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. "Here is a new kind of shocker; one in which the human mind itself is the Chamber of Horrors. You are not likely to forget your journey through it. // This is a book which should be read only in broad daylight - and dreamed about at your own risk. " - from dust wrapper blurb. "Psycho" was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960. "Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. // It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane. " - the opening sentences of Chapter One. 12mo Price: 280.00 NZD
