POP. 1280

First edition with these illustrations. Signed by the author of the introduction and the artists. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Patrick Loehr and Paul Wedlake illustrated dustwrapper. Black silk bookmark. With two colour and 14 black and white plates by Patrick Loehr and Paul Wedlake. Further illustrations in the introduction include colour facsimiles of previous hardcover and paperback editions. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 217, and signed by Patrick Loehr, Paul Wedlake and Laird Barron in black ink on the colophon. A crime novel of a highly intelligent Sheriff Nick Corey who commits a series of crimes in secret in his town of Pottsville while playing the fool in public. First published in 1964 as a paperback original by Gold Medal Books, NY.