The Godwulf Manuscript.
“Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn't look in the mirror again": First Edition of Robert B. Parker's The Godwulf Manuscript; inscribed by him
The Godwulf Manuscript.
PARKER, Robert B.
Item Number: 95282
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.
First edition of Parker’s debut crime novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Ron, your attention is vastly appreciated Rob B. Parker.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Gary Goshgarian.
Parker's debut detective novel introduces Spenser, a private investigator in Boston hired by an unnamed university to recover a stolen illuminated manuscript. The novel spawned 39 subsequent crime novels which incorporated encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area and have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre.
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