London: Picador, (1998). First hardcover edition, 1st impression. 8vo. 399 pp. Original black cloth boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped (£10.00) first-state dust-jacket. Some light rubbing, wrinkling and handling wear to jacket. Edge wear light, particular to the spine ends. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight and firm. Trivial shelf, handling wear - particular to edges. Pages mostly bright with some nicks to bottom text block. Laid in is an author signed photograph of the U.K. paperback release. Perhaps unread.

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".