Long Haul

New York: Carrick & Evans, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Boards lightly soiled, very good in about good Arthur Hawkins-designed dust jacket, with pencil marks traced on the lettering of the front panel and a number of small chips and tears. Issued by a small publisher, this hardboiled novel was the basis for the 1940 Raoul Walsh film *They Drive By Night,* which featured George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as hardbitten truck driving brothers facing the relentless dangers of the road and a murder frame-up, also with Ann Sheridan and Ida Lupino. A cult favorite, the film was probably the best for both Walsh and Raft (who actually drove a bootleg liquor truck in his youth and reportedly put the experience to good use on the set). An exceptionally uncommon book in jacket. (Inventory #: 547469)