The Velvet Whip

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Snyder on the front free endpaper, "For Mrs. Dean K---, whose writing has given me pleasure and with many warm feelings for the good times we all shared at Associates Camp. Sincerely, Leonard Snyder, New York City, 1954." Dust soiling to the top of the page edges, else unmarked. Rubbing to the dust jacket, with very shallow chipping to the spine. Publisher's price of $3.50 on the front flap. A first novel about marriage, incest and murder set near Kansas City, Missouri where the author grew up. ; 254 pages; Signed by Author .