FIRST EDITION, They deals Hanged My Saintly Billy, Robert Graves, First American Edition, 1957

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. American First Edition. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First Printing with no other printings listed. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean cloth boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock has a two-inch closed tear on the half-title page, the back of this page lists Graves' selected works. Mild toning to endpapers. There is no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with light wear and soiling (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 312 pages. 5¼ x 8½" tall.

A self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a deals surgeon and a racehorse owner during the Victorian era who doped horses, fixed races, philandered unapologetically, and generally behaved as an all-around rogue. But the crime for which he was condemned was altogether more serious: poisoning numerous members of his family and a close friend. Based on the historic trial of a man characterized as a sociopath and a serial killer, Robert Graves tells the story of a man who was deeply flawed but ultimately not beyond redemption.

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