GRESHAM WILLIAM LINDSAY Nightmare Alley

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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, minor rubbing to spine panel tips and fold corners, spine and rear panels toned slightly, few small nicks, unclipped; contents clean and unmarked. New York: Rinehart and Company, (1946)

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first edition. 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).