Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Strangers on a Train. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in navy, edges lightly faded; pictorial dust jacket designed by Irv Docktor, short chip at top of spine panel, short closed tears along front and back panel edges, spine panel faded, light rubbing; discreet bookseller's label to rear pastedown, LMS bookplate laid-in; preserved in a custom cloth drop-back case. New York: Harper, 1950

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first edition of highsmith's first book, and the basis for the top-tier Hitchcock film with the famously aborted Raymond Chandler script.