• Publication: Johnny Pye & the Fool-KillerPublication Record # 309957
• Author: Stephen Vincent Benét
• Date: 1938-06-00
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Price:
  $3.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 78
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • Limited edition, 1st ed. as a book 24 cm "Signed by both author and artist ... limited to 750 numbered copies of which 700 copies are for sale."
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below); both WorldCat library records located 2018-02-20 (OCLC); and most of perhaps 15 dealers at ABEbooks show title/heading with ampersand:   Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer
  • Publ date and price from newspaper coverage including listings among "Books Received" 1938-06-26 NY Times and NY Herald Tribune and "Books Out Today" NYHT -06-27 p12
  • No pictorial cover, evidently from numerous ABEbooks.com dealer descriptions (4 supported by a single exterior "Bookseller image") -- plain blue cloth cover, gold lettering on spine (w/ 1 dealer image) -- clear plastic/acetate slipcover (w/ 1 dealer image) -- paper wrapper (w/ 2 dealer images) Spine shows title with "and"; "The Countryman Press". Wrapper shows title with "&"; "The Countryman Press".
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 127
  • LCCN: 38019995
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 960053447 3622633
  • Reginald-1: 01087

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• Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer • novelette by Stephen Vincent Benét (variant of Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer 1937)