The Bad Seed by William March [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1954 Dell Robert Rosenblum three-year-old Kate

three-year-old Kate

squirming in his own über-sensitive skin

Rear flyleaf appears to have been ripped out [see last photo]

Then there is the strangely disturbed and wildly frightened Edgar Allan Partridge

The Bad Seed by William March [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1954 Dell Robert Rosenblum three-year-old KateThe Bad Seed by William March FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1954] DELL BOOKS Rare 1st paperback printing of this horror classic. Small antique paperback in very good condition. Some mild creasing to cover and along spine. Otherwise, clean square and tight copy with tanning to pages. *1954 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction! What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William