HIGHSMITH, Patricia.
Strangers on a Train.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1950.
$8,800.00
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"Strangers in the Night": First Edition of Patricia Highsmith’s First Book; Inscribed by Her in the year of publication
First edition of the author's classic first book, basis for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the dedication page, "Strangers in the night June 1, 1950 Patricia Highsmith." Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Irv Doktor.
"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith" (Time). The success of Strangers on a Train allowed Highsmith to quit "hack" writing for magazines and devote her energies full time to fiction. "Her books evoke a quiet tension, a persistent apprehension, which is all the more terrifying and suspenseful for its aura of plausibility" (Vinson, 643-44). It was adapted as a film in 1951, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger and Ruth Roman.
Strangers on a Train.
$8,800.00
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