first edition Hardcover
1949 · New York
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, spine darkened with some small tears and edge-chips. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to make commercial trucking in California the stuff of great drama and suspense, which is no small feat.
(Inventory #: 180420003)