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Lot 56
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
Price Realized
$1,188
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Lot Description
BLOCH, ROBERT (1917-1994) Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
8vo. (Some light overall browning as usual.) Original cloth-backed boards; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (minor toning, very slight rubbing to extremities).
FIRST EDITION, WITH BLOCH'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in, and with the iconic just jacket designed by Tony Palladino. Bloch's thriller was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960 into a feature film of the same name, written by Joseph Stefano and starring Anthony Perkins as Bates and Janet Leigh. Currey p.46.