Starkweather: The Story of a Mass Murderer by William Allen [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1976 • Houghton Mifflin

Starkweather : The Story of a Mass Murderer by William Allen

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1976] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Very rare true 1st!  Full sized cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket featuring original $7.95 price in tact. 

Beautiful, near mint dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear; now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. 

Book itself is excellent.  Boards are pristine.  A few faint marks to text block.  Looks and reads like new.

January 1958, 17 year-old Charles Starkweather killed 11 people in a grisly spree of cold-blooded murder in his hometown and neighboring towns in Nebraska. The story shocked America and cast Starkweather and his 15-year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate, in the crime scene spotlight, a vivid embodiment of the dark side of the heartland. Their crimes were infamous, inspiring the films Badlands and Natural Born Killers.