first edition Hardcover
1945 · New York
by Brooks, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. 238p., light wear to board edges otherwise very good first edition in cloth boards and edgeworn,chipped and sunned unclipped dj Young 467. Big chip affects author's last name on front panel. Filmmaker Richard Brooks' ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "The Blackboard Jungle" "In Cold Blood") first novel which was filmed in 1947 as "Crossfire" with Robert Mitchum, Robert Young and Robert Ryan. The gay-bashing murder was changed to anti-Semitism.
(Inventory #: 262651)