The Diehard [Signed]

New York: Random House, 1977. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 217pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($6.95). Boards quarter bound in black and khaki paper with blind and silver stamping. Jacket toned with bumping, rubbing, and minor creasing at margins as well as minor scuffing and soiling to panels. Small tears to the joints of spine. Board color rubbed at verso spine. Board margins sunned with corners and spine ends bumped. Boards bowing at fore-edge and page edges toned. Remainder stamp to bottom edge. Pages uniformly toned. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket.

Signed on title page by Jackson. The author's first mystery novel involves a dead woman's husband suspected of both her death and a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme.