MY MOTHER'S KILLER - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Ellroy, James (text); Levinthal, David (photographs) - 1998

[Paris]: Coromandel Express, 1998. First Edition. A collaborative interpretation of the events surrounding the unsolved 1958 murder of James Ellroy's mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, as recreated by noted photographer David Levinthal in a series of stylized miniature tableaux. Ellroy originally published "My Mother's Killer" in GQ magazine in 1994 - a searing account of how and why he decided to reopen his mother's unsolved case. Levinthal's photographs were produced specifically for this edition. OCLC notes 2 holdings (NYPL, Smithsonian). One of 55 numbered copies signed by the author and photographer. This copy unnumbered, but Levinthal's own copy, inscribed by him to American bookseller Glenn Horowitz inside the title leaf, by way of thanks for mounting an exhibition of his work: "To Glenn - with all my thanks and very best wishes - David Levinthal." Square folio (32.5cm); two bifolium leaves (title leaf and colophon), together with six tri-fold leaves, each containing an archivally housed color Cibachrome print (silver dye bleach/dye construction, measuring 11.5" x 10.5"), each signed and dated by Levinthal; housed in a blue paper-covered tri-fold portfolio with mounted hand-painted silver gelatin print (7.75" x 9.75") and paper-covered slipcase, with printed title label inset on front; parallel text in French and English. Contents and portfolio are Fine; thin crack to upper right edge of slipcase, else Near Fine.