Blood and Water and Other Tales

New York, NY: Poseidon Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st Hardback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 067164405X . Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. First US combined edition & first hardback edition. This copy has been signed in black ink on the title page by the author. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning sunning to the very bottom edge of the book cover (all the way around) and some very beginning rubbing to the bottom edge as well. The text pages are clean & bright. Also included is a laid in newsletter from Dark Carnival (publisher). Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. There is a hint of beginning toning to the top front edge of the dust jacket and the front flap top edge as well. The edges of the text block have some beginning toning. Included are the short stories: The Angel, The Lost Explorer, The Black Hand of the Raj, Lush Triumphant, Ambrose Syme, The Arnold Crombeck Story, Blood Disease, The Skewer, Marmilion, Hand of a Wanker, The Boot's Tale, The E(rot) ic Potato, and, Blood and Water. This is the author's first book. "Patrick McGrath (born 7 February 1950) is a British novelist, whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction...His fiction is principally characterised by the first person unreliable narrator, and recurring subject matter in his work includes mental illness, repressed homosexuality and adulterous relationships. His novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy and Asylum was shortlisted for the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .