Description
First edition of The Bad Seed by William March, in the first state dust jacket.
Octavo, 247pp. Black cloth, pink boards, title in pink on spine. Rinehart “R” on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, toning to edges of leaves, a very good example. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, faint sunning to spine, shelf wear, a very good example. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-211) Illustrated dust jacket by Lawrence S. Kamp.
The Bad Seed was William March’s last novel to be published before his passing in May of 1954.
