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FIRST EDITION OF PSYCHO, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT BLOCH

BLOCH, Robert. Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, original half white cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of this horror classic, inscribed: “To Rick from Robert Bloch.”

Before it was adapted for the screen and became the film classic directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho was “a genre masterpiece which set the pattern for the psychological suspense-horror novel” (Barron, Horror Literature, 4-46). Jones & Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books, 57. Minor uniform marginal embrowning to text, very minor wear to bright, near-fine original dust jacket. A near-fine copy.