Search Results: the necrophiles by gurney david

book is "Fine" without any discernible faults. Black top stain. Unclipped jacket suffers from laminate failing along the hinges and extremities. There is one 20 mm open tear at the spine tail. Some very miniscule tears at spine head. No other tears, chips or creases.
Inv. # 63725 TN* bds 10/2023

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pyramid, 1971. First Paperback 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. A novel about "orgies, incest, drugs, homosexuality, necrophilia, murder, satanism, & living sacrifice" with lurid cover art to boot! Designed to tap into the growing societal panic about out-of-control teenagers in the late-1960s, with hints of the Satanic Panic that would arise during the next decade. Orig. published in hardcover in 1969, this is the First Mass Market Paperback Edition, First Printing, from Pyramid (#N2384), issued in Jan. 1971, interestingly enough, without the original subtitle ("A Modern Essay in the Macabre"). In 254 pages + 2 pages of ads for other Pyramid titles in rear. Condition is VG+: completely clean inside, pages modestly tanned but unmarked, binding tight & square, spine uncreased. Mild-moderate rubbing to extremities, heaviest along top edge of front & lower edge of back covers, which are a bit ragged. Teeny tear at head of… Read More