This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith - First Edition

Octavo. Gray boards with black spine, Harper & Brothers insignia in purple foil on bottom left corner; cream and gray pictorial dust jacket with red lettering; deckled edges; endpapers in red and white with repetitive Harper Novel of Suspense design. Very mild edge wear at head of spine. Jacket is not price-clipped but has edgewear, chipping, tearing, rubbing at the joints, and is toned particularly on the outer edges of the back of the jacket. Jacket in protective mylar. Binding is solid; text clean and unmarked. A first edition by the well-known American writer of psychological thrillers and in particular known for The Talented Mr. Ripley and subsequent Ripley novels. This Sweet Sickness is an early-mid career Highsmith novel.