?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CASPARY, VERA. Laura. 8vo, publisher's pale blue cloth, spine lightly faded, minimal rubbing to spine tips and corners; dust jacket, expertly restored, chiefly to spine panel and folds, unclipped with $2.50 price, light finger-soiling; contents clean but for one or two leaves with small spot of foxing at margin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943
first edition, first printing with "1943" indicated on title-page. A bright, fresh copy and very scarce with no examples of the first American edition appearing at auction in the past decade. "...cooly received by the critics - who later wrote nostalgic rhapsodies about it ... A haunting and memorable novel and a masterpiece..." (Steinbrunner/Penzler, p. 69). Basis for the classic Otto Preminger film noir.
