May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SPILLANE, MICKEY. Vengeance is Mine. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, spine gilt-stamped, faint fading to board edges and spine; dust jacket, edges lightly worn and chipped, spine panel chipped with tear at head extending into front panel affecting several letters, rear panel has both small hole and open tear along fold of rear flap, short closed tears; endpapers slightly discolored. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1950

Additional Details

first edition, inscribed by spillane: "Dear Ma and Dad - / Enough of these and / we'll all have what we want - / But I still say you aren't old / enough to be reading this kind of literature. / Your son."