THE LAST OF PHILIP BANTER.
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, [2020]. Octavo, cloth. New edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Ramsey Campbell (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. Filmed in 1986. [Reference: Hubin (2003), p. 92]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (35984). Item #35984
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