Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CLARK, WALTER VAN TILBURG. The Ox-Bow Incident. 8vo, publisher's beige linen, spine tanned; dust jacket, corners clipped, small tape ghost on verso with accompanying nick at head of spine panel; Margaret Helen Boller bookplate to front pastedown; preserved in a custom cloth drop-back case (LMS booklabel). New York: Random House, (1940)

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first edition of Clark's first novel. "The final turn in this exploration of morality is shattering and unexpected, a closed-plot resolution as satisfying as can be found in any mystery" (Smiley, Books Into Film, p. 68).