Kevin Johnson’s The Dark Page
NPR also had a feature about hard-boiled crime writing this morning which reminded that we recently interviewed one of our finest booksellers - Kevin Johnson, who runs Royal Books in Baltimore. Kevin is one of America’s top sellers of modern first editions but he has another string to his bow - writing.
Kevin has recently published The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir 1940-1949.
The Dark Page is a major guide to 160 books, featuring full-page 9×12 three-dimensional images of the true first editions that inspired movies but The Dark Page also salutes the screenwriters and directors that turned the stories into Film Noir Silver Screen classics. If you love movies and books about flawed heroes, villians and dames, then this might be for you.
