The Pitfall

by Jay Dratler

$250 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1947. First edition. viii , 177 pp. Publisher's slick tan cloth, spine lettered in red. Near Fine with bookplate on front free endpaper, in a spine-sunned, unclipped Very Good dust jacket, small closed tear near head, a little rubbed. The basis of the 1948 film noir by the same name. Item #140942205

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