first edition
1983 · New York
by Oates, Joyce Carol
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983. Octavo, printed green wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. "Third of a trilogy of nineteenth-century genre novels ... that presents three classical detective stories with Gothic overtones that dovetail at the end to make a single, coherent, impressive work ... A powerful, complex, thought-provoking narrative ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-288. Some foxing to spine panel, a near fine copy. (#108639) (Inventory #: 108639)