FIRST EDITION, They Hanged My Saintly Billy, Robert Graves, 1957 retailer

Product Name: FIRST EDITION, They Hanged My Saintly Billy, Robert Graves, 1957 retailer
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. American First Edition. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First Printing with no other printings listed. Light creases to the spine ends retailer. The textblock has a two-inch closed tear on the half-title page, the back of this page lists Graves' selected works. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with light wear and soiling (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 312 pages. A self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a surgeon and a racehorse owner during the Victorian era who doped horses, fixed races, philandered unapologetically, and generally behaved as an all-around rogue. But the crime for which he was condemned was more serious: poisoning numerous members of his family and a close friend. Based on the historic trial of a man characterized as a sociopath and a serial killer, Robert Graves tells the story of a man who was deeply flawed but ultimately not beyond redemption.