AMERICAN PSYCHO, A Novel.

First American hardcover edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author, the illustrator and John Langan who provides an introduction. Publisher's original black cloth with colour printed label to the upper board and silver titles to the spine, in the Ben Baldwin designed dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour and black and white by Ben Baldwin. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the bright original dustwrapper that has a scuff to the bottom corner of the upper panel taking some of the surface layer of paper.

Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, this example is numbered 100 and signed by Bret Easton Ellis, Ben Baldwin and John Langan on the colophon. Originally slated for publication by Simon and Schuster, the American hardcover edition was cancelled and the novel published as a paperback original by Vintage. The British edition published by Picador is the true first hardcover edition. This Centipede Press edition, with illustrations is the first illustrated, and first American hardcover edition.