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A first edition, first printing of First Blood by David Morrell, published by Barrie and Jenkins, London in 1972. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with some wear to the spine tips and to the corners.
Published in 1972, First Blood was David Morrell’s debut novel and introduced Rambo, a traumatised Vietnam veteran whose confrontation with Kentucky police chief Wilfred Teasle escalates into a wilderness manhunt. Alternating between the two men’s perspectives, Morrell portrays both hunter and hunted with complexity while examining alienation, authority, combat trauma and America’s generational divisions. Darker and more violent than the 1982 film adaptation starring Sylvester Stallone, the novel gave rise to the enduring Rambo franchise.
