First Centipede Press edition. Signed by the author of the introduction and the artist. Publisher's original black cloth with orange titles to the spine, in the Dan Rempel illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge orange. Coral silk bookmark. Illustrated endpapers and colour reproductions of previous hardcover and paperback editions. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.
Issued in an edition of 500 copies, from which this example is numbered 337, and signed by Stefan Dziemianowicz and Dan Rempel in black ink on the colophon. Mendal W. Johnson's psychological horror novel, first published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. in 1974, focuses on a group of children from rural Maryland who drug and eventually torture their babysitter.
Stock code: 29008
£60