Publication: The Library of America, 1997, New York
First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Contains The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson, The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing, Nightware Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, and I Married A Dead Man, by Cornell Woolrich. Together with: POLITO, ROBERT [SELECTED THE CONTENTS]. CRIME NOVELS. AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950S. [New York]: The Library of America, [1997]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Contains The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Pick-Up by Charles Willeford, Down There by David Goodis, and The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes. Two adventurous volumes by The Library of America to provide a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. The volumes contain newly researched biographies and notes, and an essay on textual selection. All stories are fine examples of hard-boiled crime fiction.
Inventory Number: 15351