D'ENTRE LES MORTS THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Boileau-Narcejac

$2,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Denoël, 1954. First French Edition. True first edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Not only is Vertigo widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece, it is also routinely cited by AFI and

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