KEEPER OF THE CHILDREN

First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in orange and red foil to the spine, with colour illustration onlay to the upper board, in the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Red silk ribbon bookmark. Top edge brown. Illustrated endpapers, a colour frontispiece and four full page black and white illustrations by David Ho. Also with colour facsimiles of previous editions and a black and white photograph of the author. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, and tears.

First published in 1978 by William Morrow. This Centipede Press edition includes a new introduction by Michael Saler, photographs and old book covers, and a bonus essay 'The Making of a Suspense Novelist' and bonus short story 'Meet Me At The Grave'. This appears to be an advance or trial issue, the contents are identical to the signed limited edition in all but the signed limitation page which is not present here.