First edition, first printing. Recently bound in full burgundy morocco, ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards, with five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original cloth spine with titles in red, bound in at the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents, with the habitual toning of the cheap paper stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.
A classic of suspence and horror fiction. The basis for the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam.
Stock code: 28447
£475