DEVIL TAKE THE BLUE-TAIL FLY.
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, [2020]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Frank C. Bardin (introduction) and Dan Rempel (artist). Facsimile signature of John Franklin Bardin. This is copy number 1. New introduction by the author's son Frank C. Bardin. This edition also includes the beginning of an unfinished novel "Black Counted Fair." "Bardin's three novels have close affinities with the Hollywood "film noir" of the 1940s, combining eerily mysterious occurrences with an interest in abnormal psychology and dreams, and an almost Gothic sense of the ways in which the past interpenetrates the present." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 47. [Reference: Hubin (2003), p. 92]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (35983). Item #35983
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