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Farmer, Philip Jose. Blown or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind. Essex House, 1969.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: #0139, Signed by Farmer
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mass Market PB. 12mo. Published by Essex House, North Hollywood, CA. 1969. 208 pgs. Signed by Philip Jose Farmer to the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Private dick Herald Childe is sent a movie of his partner being brutally murdered. His pursuit of her killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality, as he becomes entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, snake-women and a filthy human sow. In "Image of the Beast" and its sequel "Blown" both published in this volume-Philip Jose Farmer conjures up a universe of unrelenting sexual degradation and horror populated by erogenous vampires, werewolves and other polymorphic creatures from the darkest recesses of the human imagination. E-52; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.