Nightmare Alley

by William Gresham

$1,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: Rinehart, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 275. Endpapers foxed, one small and faint smudge, else fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the head of the spine, an old tape repair to a spine fold split, and light rubbing to the extremities. Item #1379 An acclaimed model for postwar noir, set at the lowest level of carnival life and populated by hustlers, schemers, and con

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