Robert Parker Introduction Signed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1988. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Signed by introduction writer and author Robert Parker. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; small splashes on textblock fore edge; light suntoning to board top edges. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine; light bumping to head and tail; small splash stain on front panel. Gray paper over boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 76 pp 8vo. This is the rediscovered novel by the father of the hard-boiled crime thriller. This book is about a young woman who appears at the door of an isolated house. She is frightened, hurt, and speaks in a foreign accent and there are strange men pursuing her. There is menace in the air.Originally published in Liberty magazine in 1933 and then again in 1950 in a pulp paperback edition. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Signed by others involved with.…