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GRESHAM, WILLIAM LINDSAY. Nightmare Alley. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, mild shelf-wear with light exposure to spine tips and corners, top edges stained green; dust jacket, neat vertical creasing along flap fold and portion of spine panel, tiny closed tears to spine panel extremities, unclipped; front hinge partially cracked. New York: Rinehart and Company, (1946)
first edition. A very good copy in a bright, crisp jacket and the basis for the 1947 film starring Tyrone Power. "...Nightmare Alley, the unremitting and darkest of noirs, is about nothing less than how to make a [carnival] geek" (Smiley, Books into Film, pp. 123-26).
