Blunderer, First Edition (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First edition, review copy. 116pp. Laid-in press release. Translated from the French by Dr. Alexandra B. Kaminska. Hard cover, foredge stamped, "Reading Copy," otherwise Near Fine. DJ, spine faded, edges lightly worn. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG/VG. Darkening to the gutters of the spine and light fading to dust jacket spine and back cover. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Very nice solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. ​​New, still in original plastic wrap. Note that this is a slipcase edition, exclusive to subscribers and issued without a dust jacket. Part of a collection of 1st printing LOA editions. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG- Edges trimmed & slightly frayed, covers slightly creased & rubbed, spine ends worn, otherwise internally very clean throughout. A mixture of new stories & 1930's reprints.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Photos (6 plates) (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red pictorial c; lite bumps at lower corner tips; in mylar protective wraps, tiny tear at top spine 255 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated throughout the set by Louis Leloir, Maricie Leloir, Jacques Leman and Edmond Hedouin (illustrator). 1st. no date given; l1st thus imited edition; circa 1890; #112 of 200 numbered copies printed on Imperial Japan Paper, one of 12 volumes in the set; some foxing, darkening of the edges of the cover engraving.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. Select Comedies of Mr. De Moliere in French and English. Vol. 3 (of 8?). First Parallel edition 1732. Two lovely rubricated title-pages with two frontis. 203pp/89pp. plus pub. cat. Full contemp. calf. Front board and spine very worn, front hinge cracked. Spine label missing. Rear board detached. Text-block clean and tight. Insc. on ffep. dated 1801 and 18(17?)96. Small armorial of Emma Moore on front paste-down. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.

8vo.; 222 pp. Primera edición española. Cubiertas originales.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Illustrated with photos from life (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red hardcover cloth binding decorated with flowers has slightly rounded spine, bumped corners, clean and tight interior. Good hinges. 255 pages plus ads in back. Irish Terrier dog story. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First French edition. Illustrated wrappers. Modest toning of the cheap paper, faint small crease on rear wrap, very good or better. Highsmith's second book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. 8vo., 237 pp. first edition in Pan, 2nd Printing (re-set) 1967. tanned foredges with a hint of foxing, hint of marginal browning to pages otherwise very good in original pictorial card covers, slightly rubbed spine otherwise very good. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo. 277 pp. Fair in Fair dust jacket. Wear to head and foot of spine. Top two inches of front gutter starting, but binding is otherwise strong. Small stamp to front pastedown. Price clipped and moderately worn jacket is glued on inside bookshop mylar together with bookshop slip along bottom edge. Large tear to rear flap.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. First edition of Highsmith's pleasantly sadistic exploration of the many ways incompetence, more than immorality, can be a man's undoing - only the second novel published under her own name. Like Highsmith's previous novel, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE BLUNDERER examines two men's efforts to disguise and displace their own guilt; unlike its predecessor, THE BLUNDERER presents the total collapse of a life in which factual guilt is largely irrelevant and technical innocence is no advantage. The novel was the basis for two film adaptations, 1963's LE MEURTRIER and 2016's A KIND OF MURDER, both unable to fully capture the bleak comedy of the title character's inept and inevitable slide into ruin. Uncommon. 8'' x 5.25''. Original black cloth with red lettering. In original unclipped ($3.00) dust jacket designed by Rus Anderson. 277, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, slight spine lean. Jacket with moderate chipping and creasing, light sunning to spine. Very good plus in very good minus jacket.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good+ condition hardback, unread or very lightly read and free of owner's marks. Outside text block toned and soiled from dust exposure. Base edge spine bumped. Top spine rubbed. Black boards with magenta type. Dust jacket rubbed, especially at bends to spine and flaps. Top outside corner flaps rubbed. A 1" length of bend to spine has a blackened moisture stain most visible from reverse side. In protective archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "The Blunderer" by Patricia Highsmith. Cresset. 1956 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition, in exceptional dustwrapper. endpapers stained and toned affecting final page of text, original boards, spine ends very slightly bumped, dust-jacket, price-clipped, stained on flaps, light surface discolouring to lower panel, light bumps and creasing to spine ends, otherwise a remarkably bright copy overall. Rare first UK edition of one of Highsmith's most entertaining early novels in rare dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Slight wrinkle at top of front fly, a little light wear on boards, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stain on the front flap (perhaps a small tape shadow) and a little wrinkle at the bottom of the front panel. The author's uncommon second book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Nominal foxing on the foredge else very near fine in near fine dust jacket, with a small, faint stain visible only on the interior. Raymond Chandler's copy of Highsmith's second book, with his ownership Signature writ large: "Raymond Chandler. London. Feb. 1956." Of significance, Chandler wrote the screenplay for the 1951 classic film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that was made from Highsmith's first book, *Strangers on a Train*. Hitchcock largely discarded the two drafts of Chandler's screenplay in favor of one by Ben Hecht's protégé Czenzi Ormonde, and which later precipitated one of the great Hollywood "fuck you" letters from Chandler to "Dear Hitch." Highsmith would later write the introduction to the 1977 book, *The World of Raymond Chandler*.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. The author's second mystery novel and third book. Tide mark at the top edge of the rear flap (see image), else Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with light edge wear to covers, light soiling to front free endpaper, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, numbers stamped to top edge of rear flap and light tanning to the blindside. A lovely copy.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Jose. A serious and grim book. I hope you will enjoy some parts of it. In memory of an important caesura in my life, and you are an anhydrate in my life. Pat Highsmith". Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear to corners and spine ends, foxing to top of textblock edge and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities and toning.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with light shelf wear, large area of glue residue from bookplate removal on front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear, with fading to the red print on the spine.

First edition. Author's second mystery novel and third book. Fine in dust jacket with light restoration to the spine ends and corners and a few minor creases to top and bottom of rear panel. A man incriminates himself in his wife's accidental death by going on many occasions to visit a man who murdered his own wife under circumstances that are all too similar to the accidental death. 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers say, "--spins an enthralling suspense plot involving all her recurrent themes of coincidence, guilt, complicity, rationality, and neurosis. In many of her subsequent novels, she takes these basic elements, and reformulates them to powerful effect, without her books ever seeming merely formulaic." Handsome copy.