Bad Characters

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm), [ix], 276pp. Color illustrated dust jacket with price intact and author's photograph on rear in black and white. Quarter bound with light red paper and brown cloth spine with yellow, blue, and red stamping on the spine. Dust jacket has some discoloration along the joints and top margin of the inside back flap, creasing on the inside front flap and a hard crease to the joint of the front of the spine. Inside of the dust jacket has some minor foxing, mostly along the top margin and a few minor tears and bumping to the head of the spine and the top margin of the front and back cover. Some light discoloration, likely sunning, on the top and bottom margin of both boards and head and tail of spine. Top and bottom edges have some minor scrapes and a small bumping to the top of pages 214 and 215. Pages clean.