A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Death of a Bookseller by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Bernard%20J.%20Farmer&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bernard J. Farmer</a>.<ul><li>Bernard J. Farmer (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann Ltd,&nbsp;(1956). </li><li>208 pages.</li><li>Bound in the original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul> "Sell them to me,' was the first thought of a collector and dealer." Farmer's examination of the psychology driving the bookseller's natural predator, the other bookseller, culminates in the biblio-mystery subgenre's most spectacular confrontation scene: "You are indeed the Bride of Satan," the victim cries; "what do you want of me?" "Books," the murderer replies, speaking for us all; "to read to my sisters in Hell." Shops and characters claimed to be fictitious. A book of great charm, particularly rare in such condition.

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