Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BLOCH, ROBERT. Psycho. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 black cloth, spine head lightly tanned; dust jacket designed by Tony Palladino, price-clipped (corner re-attached with tape), tape repair on verso, lightly rubbed; cheap paper browned in margins as usual; bookplate laid-in; preserved in custom cloth drop-back case. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959

Additional Details

first edition, signed by janet leigh on front-free endpaper for Lawrence Solomon: "Larry - / Janet Leigh." Book that was the basis for Leigh's most famous role, even though Hitchcock had her killed off about halfway through the movie.