Disch, Thomas M. — The Priest: A Gothic Romance

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First American Edition. Black cloth over gray boards, silver spine lettering. 286 pp. Two-tone, brick-red cloth over boards, black cloth-backed. The Sub was the fourth, darkly comic novel about a substitute teacher's descent into violent revenge against his students and community, completing the quartet begun with The Businessman (1984), The M.D. (1991), and this, The Priest (published first in 1994), featuring Father Patrick Bryce, a disturbed priest with a pedophile past. 303 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,