Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Grubb, Davis (1919-1980)
The Night of the Hunter, Signed First Edition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953.

First edition, octavo, special review copy signed by Grubb in blue ink on a tipped-in leaf preceding title; minor marginal dampstain affecting the last few leaves; original publisher's half-cloth binding, spine lettered in white; outer edges of boards lightly toned, small crease to upper corner of back board, small section of foxing to endpapers; with the original unclipped dust jacket; (slightly soiled, 2-inch split at front hinge, some small losses to head and tail of spine panel); card inserted, "With the Compliments of Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York," signed by an unidentified Ramona; 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.