London: Picador, (1998). First hardcover edition, 1st impression, Signed. 8vo. 399 pp. Original black cloth boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped (£10.00) first-state dust-jacket. Edge wear and handling very light, particular to the spine ends. Tiny tear to top front panel edge near spine. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight and firm. Abrasion, dent to top front panel edge near spine, consistent with small jacket tear. Pages mostly bright with some light nicks to edges. Perhaps unread. Boldly signed by the author in red marker on the title page with the quote "I have to return some videotapes...". A collector's copy.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“American Psycho is a novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who supposedly lives a double life as a serial killer. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".