Robert Parker Godwulf Manuscript First and similar items

THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT By Robert B.[Brown] Parker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First edition, first printing. "First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1974 to the title page, $5.95 and 0174 date code to the jacket's flap. SIGNED to the title-page, by the two-time Edgar, Grand Master Edgar, Maltese Falcon, and Gumshoe Lifetime Awards winning late author. From the publisher's 'Midnight Novel Of Suspense' series. Parker's debut novel and the first entry in the multi-film and multi-TV adapted mystery series featuring ex-State Trooper, Korean war Veteran, now Boston private detective, Spenser. In this impressive detective mystery launch, Spenser is hired to figure out who the real killer is, and recover a stolen 14th century illuminated manuscript. An exceptionally well-preserved SIGNED first printing. Fine, firm, square, and tight in fresh cinnamon-brown linen with dark-brown embossed Paul Bacon 'G' art to the front cover, gilt embossed titles and dark-brown decorations to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, brown-sand end-papers, upper page edges a bright blood-peach; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with illuminated letter murder scene art by Paul Bacon, with a touch of light tan age-lines to the lower spine panel joints, and a minuscule crimp to the upper spine edge. NO remainder mark. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!