first edition
1941 · New York
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1941. First Edition. Good/Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in white and black. Good, with darkening and a lean to the spine, wear to cloth with light staining from an old-style dust jacket protector (affecting end sheets as well), creases to page corners, slightly exposed hinge at front and rear hinge started. In a rather worn Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, edge wear with chipping, tape repair to split along front flap fold, bleeding from cloth mainly to verso, thinning along folds. A major novel by the American suspense writer (1903-1968) about a man with amnesia; it inspired a radio play and an episode of the TV show The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
(Inventory #: 140939434)