Nightmare Alley

by William Lindsay Gresham

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. First edition. First printing with publisher's colophon on copyright page. x , 275 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, gilt and green stamping to spine. Fine in an unsunned, sharp example of the fragile dust jacket, with a little soiling to rear panel, else Fine. A superb copy of an inexpensively-made book that is quite rare in such lovely shape. The carnival-themed noir that

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