THE BOOK OF SKULLS
$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A student finds an ancient manuscript in the rare books room at the university library, which seems to promise immortality if he and three friends can track down the Brotherhood of the Skull. They travel to Arizona on their quest, only to find that what awaits is not immortality but terror and death. Very much a product of the late
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