Joe R. Lansdale Cold In July First Hardcover and 12 similar items

COLD IN JULY by Joe R. Lansdale Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. First hardcover edition (stated). SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Fine in red cloth with spine lettering in silver; in a nearly fine, illustrated dust jacket. "To kill a man, even in self-defence, is no easy thing for a man with a conscience. He has to answer to himself, put the episode behind him, get on with his life. This is very difficult when the dead man's father, a murderous ex-con, is determined to avenge the shooting, no matter what the rights and wrongs. Richard Dane is a small businessman, a family man with a son of his own. Ben Russell, the ex-con, has a very simple proposition: an eye for an eye, a son for a son. But the truth is anything but simple, and before long Dane and Russell, misled and manipulated, are awkward allies in a living nightmare of paranoia and psychopathic sex, violence and corruption."--Fantastic Fiction. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!