Nightfall

New York: Julian Messner Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 214 pp. Original gray cloth with blue lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing and a little toning along bottom edge, sticker shadow to ffep, in unclipped original dust jacket with creased tear in top of front panel, else Very Good with a few edge-chips and rubbing, slight sunning to spine. A suspense novel by one of the masters of the sub-genre, which inspired a Jacques Tourneur-helmed film noir ten years after publication. (Inventory #: 180904005)