The Best American Noir of the Century [Signed by Penzler, Ellroy, and Thomas H. Cook]

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 731pp. Publisher’s opaque dust jacket with $30 price intact; pictorial boards. Superficial scratching to front jacket panel with slightly heavier scratch on rear. Boards show minor bumping to spine. Spotted staining to top edge and briefly to fore-edge. Small stain to rear pastedown obscured by jacket flap. Binding is sound; pages unmarked. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Inscribed “With darkest best wishes” by Otto Penzler without dedication on full title page; additional signatures by editor James Ellroy and contributor Thomas H. Cook. Contains thirty-nine works of fiction by authors including Harlan Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.