THE SCARF

by Robert Bloch

$500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with a nice signed inscription by Bloch on the front free endpaper: For / Ida Binder Daniels / in memory of all / the wonderful years / we spent together / with love, / Bob Bloch / 1947. The author's second book and first novel. The first person narrative of a serial killer. Mild wear to boards at spine ends, light age-darkening to text

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