Thieves' Market

by A. I Bezzerides

$450 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, spine darkened with some small tears and edge-chips. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to make commercial trucking in California the stuff of great drama and suspense, which is no small

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