May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 539

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
WALSH, THOMAS. Nightmare in Manhattan. 8vo, sea green cloth lettered in blue; dust jacket, only light wear including a short clean tear with residual creasing to lower front panel. Boston, 1950

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first edition of walsh's first novel. inscribed and signed to fellow mystery writer george harmon coxe: "To George - The old master-- Hoping that he'll look kindly on my first effort. Tom Walsh." An Edgar Award winner and Haycraft-Queen cornerstone by the master of the "gritty streets of New York" genre. It became immortalized in the 1951 movie version "Union Station."