Signed book: A Kiss Before Dying. First edition. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Hardcover with professionally restored dust jacket by the Dragonfly Bindery Studio, 5 x 7.75, 244 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page in black ink, "To Matt Stiller, With best wishes—45 years after the fact, Ira Levin, 1/15/98." Includes a TLS from Levin, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, January 15, 1998, in part: “I’m glad to oblige—just sorry that Simon & Schuster didn’t use better paper!” In overall fine condition, with toning to the pastedowns and page edges.
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