first edition
1949 · New York
by Bezzerides, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Good+. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in original dust jacket, unclipped ($3.00), chipped at extremities, else Very Good with spine panel dulled, tape shadow on back panel upper corner. 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 #: 140939444)