The Hero

Canadian printing. After an injury during a crucial game, a football star discovers that he is a pawn in a power struggle, and the woman to whom he has turned for refuge is trapped by a man "whose strange hold upon her was nurtured in the fury and violence of a monstrous obsession." Originally published in hardcover, in 1949, by Julian Messner, this edition "has been slightly abridged for your greater reading pleasure," which makes a fella wonder about all those tedious extra words that mighta been in the original edition. Spine a bit cocked/rolled, mild edgewear, ink initial on title page, light internal soil, some mustiness, crease to bottom left corner of back cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.