POSTMORTEM, Patricia Cornwell, INSCRIBED/Dated 1989, Association copy, 1st/1st

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. SIGNED/INSCRIBED. NF/NF. Pre-publication, association copy inscribed by Patricia Daniels Cornwell (full name) on the half title page to a former co-worker at the Virginia State Laboratory in Richmond Virginia. "To Mary Lea, Best Wishes, Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1989." The book has a mild slant from reading, otherwise it is tight with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or marks and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Very faint foxing to side fore-edges. A bend on page 214 where the page was dog-eared. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with mild toning to the upper flaps. The original seller provided a 1991 VDGS (Virginia Department of General Services) newsletter about their now-famous employee. Protected in a Brodart cover. 293 pages. 6¾ x 8½" tall. Winner of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The first book in the Kay Scarpetta Series.

An email provenance of this copy is in photos.