This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly's early novel about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.
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This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly's early novel about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.
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Add this copy of Scorpions to cart. $24.44, fair condition, Sold by BooksRun rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Station Hill Press.
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Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday & Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Modestly soiled, very good in a very good moderately soiled dust jacket. Author's first novel, of a New York psychiatrist and his Rolls Royce on a mysterious road trip to Fort Lauderdale.
Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday & Company.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Binding slightly cocked, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light foxing, primarily on the spine and flap folds. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author's first novel, of a New York psychiatrist and his Rolls Royce on a mysterious road trip to Fort Lauderdale.
Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $45.50, very good condition, Sold by Rulon-Miller Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from St Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday & Company.
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First edition, 8vo, pp. 188; original linen-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket (some minor foxing to back cover); a few shallow chips and tears along jacket edges, one affecting "The" in the jacket cover title, else very good.
Add this copy of The Scorpions to cart. $56.25, like new condition, Sold by James & Mary Laurie Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Doubleday.
Add this copy of Scorpions to cart. $68.21, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Station Hill Press.
Add this copy of Scorpions to cart. $105.32, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Station Hill Press.
