Hardcover
1943 · New York
by Wolfert, Ira
New York: L.B. Fischer. Very Good+. 1943. 3rd printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing and NOTES) [a good sound book with only light wear to the extremities, a couple of tiny stains on rear endpapers]. Novel of NYC gangsterism (specifically the numbers racket) and brotherly conflict, the basis for the powerful 1948 film FORCE OF EVIL, directed and co-written (with Wolfert) by Abraham Polonsky -- his last credited film before being blacklisted. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of (truncated)