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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Tan paper-covered boards with brown lettering and trim on front cover, tan cloth spine with worn title paper, cover shows light rubbing and other edge wear. Page edges tanned. Ex-seminary-library with neat internal indications. Binding secure, pages somewhat tanned but clean, previous owner note on first free end page is the only other marking. 128 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slip-case edition. Hardcover (no Dust Jacket) with only minor reading wear; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with usual markings (date due slip, stickers, stamps, etc.). Dust jacket protected by plastic. Cover in very good shape. Pages in good readable condition. Binding is starting to loosen a bit, but all pages remain secure. Our feedback says it all! Feel confident when you order from Hilltop Book Shop.…

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean ex-library copy in jacket. Two blacked out areas on front and rear endpages.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain?s pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy?s They Shoot Horses, Don?t They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham?s controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy. Record # 401027. …