The Ptomaine Kid: A Hamburger Western Conger Beasley Jr. (1st Ed. SIGNED, 1981)

"Andrews and McMeel, Inc, Kansas City, MO. 1981. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good+; rubbing to panels; light bumping to edges, tips, and corners; factory fold defect on spine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 268 pp 8vo. Hoby Tibbs, a forty-one-year-old hamburger chef, has a secret: He has the power to cure bad hamburger meat. His gift is a timely one, for an epidemic of ptomaine poisoning has hit the American Southwest, threatening to change the eating habits of the entire population. Like a latter-day knight, Hoby rides forth to do battle with the pernicious microbes". Fast-paced, action-filled, comic-fantasy adventure. ISBN 10: 0836261151 / ISBN 13: 9780836261158. SIGNED COPY! The book is good for being vintage, but has some spots and pencil marks here and there.