NIGHTFALL

by David Goodis

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1947 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel, a hard-boiled mystery story. Source for the film noir Nightfall, directed by Jacques Tourneur, screenplay by Sterling Silliphant, starring Aldo Rey, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft. Goodis is a powerful but endlessly depressing writer ... - Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Old bookstore label at upper right corner of rear paste-down. A

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