New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957

8vo, pp. 242. Original blue quarter boards, lettered in silver to black spine. Author's initials blind stamped to front panel. Top edge green, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small, almost invisible closed tear to centre of spine, and the lightest of wear to top edge.

First edition.

Mid-career novel by the author of Little Caesar (1929) and High Sierra (1940), sources for the two classic Hollywood films.

HUBIN, p. 58