Pick-Up

by Charles Willeford

$200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Beacon Publications Corp. 1955. First edition. 191, 1 pp. Illustrated wraps. A Very Good+ copy with an uncreased spine, bright wraps, slight lean to spine and shelf wear, slight crease to bottom of front wrap, rubbing to back wrap. An excellent noir novel by the Miami Blues author that flaunts breaking a well-known rule of writing: to not hide crucial character information until the end of the book. Item

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