American Psycho

New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1991). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 399 pp. Light edge wear, shelf and handling wear. Some light rubbing and handling wear to gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Trivial shelf wear to edges with rubbing along the text block commensurate with mild use. Pages toned with some nicks and tips slightly curled. Signed by the author in black pen to the title page. True first edition of this modern classic with the $11.00 price to the rear and the full number line to the publisher’s page. Scarce, especially signed.

Wraps: Very Good

Text: Very Good

“American Psycho is a novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who supposedly lives a double life as a serial killer. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".