Nightmare in Manhattan (FIRST PRINTING, WITH JACKET FLAPS GLUED DOWN)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1950

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The condition of this book -- and particularly its dust jacket -- is a bit sad. We list it because it's the actual hard-to-find first edition/first printing of the winner of the 1951 Edgar Award for "Best First Mystery," a book which in better condition can now approach $1,000. But IF YOU WANT AN ATTRACTIVE READING COPY, PLEASE CONSIDER BUYING ONE OF THE FAR MORE COMMON BOOK-CLUB EDITIONS, available at a much more modest price. (Note: Copies misleadingly dated 1949 with no clear statement of edition are almost always book-club editions. This copy, on the other hand, is dated "1950" to title page and states to copyright page "First Edition / Published April 1950.") Rear flap also states "This novel has been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post," explaining the 1949 copyright to The Curtis Publishing Co. Taut kidnap thriller involving a railroad detective (most of the action centers on the "Manhattan Depot," a thinly disguised Grand Central Station) was basis for the 1950 Rudolph Mate film "Union Station" (William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald.) Book in hand is rubber-stamped in green "857 American Lending Library, Inc." to FFE, and "Library Copy" to bottom page edges. Then the TOP page edges have been stamped "ZGC." Original F.G. Kutner dust jacket here is not price clipped; still shows original $2.50 price. NO library attachments; no removed attachments. However, the gomers in question trimmed the bottom half-inch (13 mm) off this jacket (for no apparent reason), and then GLUED THE JACKET FLAPS TO THE PASTEDOWNS. True, it's ONLY the flaps which are glued down; they could presumably be worked free with some solvent and a lot of patience, but we offer this artifact "as found." Text block itself is complete, would otherwise grade "very good." Mystery; kidnapping caper; Books-into-film. 218 pp. Here reduced from $115.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Nightmare in Manhattan (FIRST PRINTING, WITH JACKET FLAPS GLUED DOWN)
Auteur
Walsh, Thomas
Éditeur
Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Année de publication
1950
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
Fair
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Illustrateur
Jacket design by F.G. Kutner
Édition
1st Edition
Impression
1st Printing
Dimensions
12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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Books-Into-Film, crime / action-adventure, Mysteries

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