Description
First edition of Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson, in scarce first state dust jacket.
Octavo, 314pp. Brown cloth, title in brown on spine and front cover. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint dampstain to lower edge of rear endpapers, dust remnant along top edge, a near fine example. In publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, faint dampstain to rear panel along bottom edge, short closed tear to top edge of rear panel, a near fine example. First state points include retail price of $2.50 on front flap, an advertisement for Forty Centuries Look Down on rear flap, and a biography of the author reprinted from WINGS magazine on the rear panel. Housed in custom yellow cloth clamshell. (Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 6)
