Strangers Train by Highsmith Patricia, First Edition (25 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No. 905. 278, [4] p. 16 cm. Paperback. Some creases and soiling to exterior. Paper browning. Faint dampstains to lower margins. A novel of an evil man . and a weak one . and their terrible bargain. First Bantam edition, June 1951, Complete and unabridged.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. (Literatura norteamericana. Novela policiaca). Barcelona, Editorial Bruguera, 1963. Col. Marabú. Suspense- 77. Traducción de Julio Mateu. Cubiertas originales en rústica ilustrada. 256 p. 8º menor. Muy buen ejemplar. Primera edición en castellano de *Strangers on the train*, posteriormente traducidas como *Extraños en el tren*. First spanish edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First impression of this Virago Modern Classics edition from 2016 in new condition, no markings, the book is new and unread, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

Condition: New. Contemporary / American English Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. You murder my father, and I ll murder your wife, he suggests. So begins Guy s journey into.

Paperback. first edition. 905 very good , reading crease, store stamp inside Cover by Zuckerberg. paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6.25 x 4", pict wraps, 278pp + ads, covers a bit rubbed and soiled, extremities a bit worn with shallow chip from foredge of front cover, spine creased, pp toned, looks like the textblock was recently re-glued to cover, but still a good+ copy of the SCARCE FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Bantam 905.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Geoff Grandfield (illustrator). First Folio Edition. Black cloth lettered and decorated in white and red. Housed in red cardboard slipcase. The author's first and most famous book now in a new edition. Fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Grandfield, Geoff (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a tiny skew starting to the binding, and is otherwise a solid, tight, clean and sharp, Near Fine copy in a like slipcase, which has a hint of wear to the upper rear corners, and some faint rubbing to the panels.

Highsmith, Patricia. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Custom Clamshell Case Only. Harper & Brothers New York: [1950, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black LEATHER & fine purple cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed [sculpted] design on the side inspired from the story of the two strangers meeting on a train. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Collection. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A tiny bump to top of back board. Faint loss of color to bottom of spine. Light wear to spine ends. Author's first book and considered a classic. Book spine just a hair lighter than the boards. Facsimile DJ. Book is square and pages are clean. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with stain by the crown and touch of sunning to the spine, but lacking the dust jacket. An ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis, it established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st Edition 1950. Tipped in signed slip attached to the title page. Correct 1st state book confirming to all points. Bound in full leather with elaborate tooling and gilt work. Hand marbled endpapers. Page tops with gold gilt. Wonderful production quality. Book is fine and in very nice condition. Contents good. More images available upon request. RefA1234. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. A touch of rubbing to the base of the spine and the publisher's name just above it, else fine, but lacking the dust jacket. Author's ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis for each other, it established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First printing with First editiion statement on copyright page and code B-Z. Tight and square with no markings. Light blue cloth is tanned at spine but tips still pretty sharp. Facsimilie jacket is fresh and bright and protected in mylar. Basis for classic Hitchcock film. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

VG/G. BASIS FOR THE CLASSIC HITCHCOCK FILM BOOK HAS CIRCULAR GLUE STAINS ON THE PASTEDOWN ENDPAPERS WITH A FAINT LENDING LIBRARY STAMP ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. OTHERWISE THE BOOK IS VERY NICE WITH A FEW PAGES SOILED AND A FEW PAGES THAT HAD CORNERS CREASED. D.J. HAS NUMEROUS LONG TEARS WITH ASSOCIATED CREASING, 3/16" LOSS AT THE TOP OF THE LIGHTLY COLOR-FADED SPINE PANEL, A THUMB NAIL SIZE PIECE MISSING AT THE TOP REAR SPINE CORNER, HIGHSMITH'S PICTURE ON THE REAR PANEL IS MODERATELY RUBBED WITH TAPE SHADOW'S TO THE FORE-EDGE FOLDS EVIDENCE PREVIOUS ATTEMPT TO REPAIR. D. J. IS NOW MENDED/REINFORCED WITH HEAT-SET TISSUE. STILL A PRESENTABLE COPY AND A CANDITATE FOR IMPROVEMENT. FIRST EDITION.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: The Cresset Press 1950). First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Just the merest hint of foxing to the page block edges otherwise a lovely, bright and clean VG+ copy. The D/W designed by J Yunge-Bateman is priced 10/6 to the inside flap as called for. The D/W has the wide flaps required by the first edition. The D/W is has a clean back panel with a small patch of insignificant surface loss to the left hand edge and the red spine is now a lighter hue of red (but not as far as burnt orange seen on other copies which have suffered much more). The D/W has had NO RESTORATION and is NOT PRICE-CLIPPED and is a totally honest example in perfectly shelvable condition. Formerly owned by the late, great bookseller George Locke (Ferret Fantasy). Famously filmed in 1951 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Farley Granger as Guy Haines, Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony, Ruth Roman as Anne Morton, Kasey Rogers as Miriam Haines, First book. Scans/photographs available upon request.

First Edition; publisher's file copy of the author's first novel, with their stamps on the top edge and front free endpaper; near very good in a worn and chipped dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1950. 299 pages. First Edition, First Printing in 1st issue DJ. First Edition stated with Harper's B-Z code (translation: February 1950) just below statement. Binding and hinges are strong. Endpapers are clean. Pages lay tight and undisturbed; seemingly unread. Faint moisture stain to page edges. Panels show ever-so-slight bowing. Mottled with uneven blue hue to cloth covers with light touch-up after a professional cleaning. Navy blue titles to backstrip are dull. Soiling to exterior. Body and bones of this book are in excellent condition as just the exterior boards show some aesthetic flaws. 1st issue DJ with $2.75 price intact on DJ flap. Bluish purple hue has faded from DJ spine. Vintage yellow sticker affixed to front of DJ. DJ has long been preserved under an archaic protector and in an effort to extract the DJ, there is paper loss around edges as well as on inside front flap. Condition description is hyper-critical. All flaws are disclosed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK edition. Author's first book and the basis for the highly acclaimed Alfred Hitchcock film. The book has some very minor spotting to the blue cloth and just a hint of scuffing to the bottom edge and some minor scattered foxing. The jacket is price-clipped. The jacket has benefitted by some very minor restoration work to the spine ends. The jacket is bright,clean and pleasing with some minor foxing to the white portions. Very Good / Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. About very good in cocked boards, small bookshop stamp, offsetting at the pastedown from a jacket protector, and toning and wear at the edges in fair only just jacket with extensive internal tape repairs, stains to the flaps from the tape and notable wear including creases and sunning. Laid in is a card Signed and dated by Highsmith. The book is Inscribed to a collector by two of friends Highsmith: Gloria Kate Kingsley Skattebol, who met Highsmith in college and helped translator her handwritten diaries for *Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995*, and Vivien De Bernardi, who knew Highsmith's during her later years in Switzerland. An ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis, it established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*.

First edition. First U. K. edition of her first and best known novel brilliantly filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay written in large part by Raymond Chandler. Publisher's File Copy with slip affixed to front fly leaf. Near fine in dust jacket with some light professional restoration to the spine ends and corners. In her first novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life. Two men meet quite casually on the Washington-to-New York train, Guy Haines, a tennis star, and Bruno Anthony, who makes an offer to exchange murders. Bruno Anthony, will kill Guy Haines' estranged wife if Guy will kill Bruno's hated father. Guy doesn't take Bruno seriously until his wife, Miriam, is found murdered in an amusement park. Guy becomes the chief suspect, which threatens his tennis career; his romantic involvement with a U.S. senator's daughter, Anne Morton; his hopes for a political career; and even his life. When Bruno realizes that Guy isn't going to kill his father, he tells Guy that he intends to establish Guy's guilt by planting his monogrammed cigarette lighter at the scene of Miriam's murder. With Anne's help, Guy attempts to stop Bruno after rushing through an important tennis match and racing to the amusement park. Filmed in 1951 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the movie starred Farley Granger as Guy Haines, Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony, Ruth Roman as Anne Morton, Kasey Rogers as Miriam Haines, and many others. An exceptional copy of a difficult title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Fine in unprinted wrappers with applied label of Paul Popper & Co. Literary Services. a touch cocked else fine. Author's ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis for each other, it established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*. The only copy of the proof we've seen.

First edition of the author's classic first book, basis for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the dedication page, "Strangers in the night June 1, 1950 Patricia Highsmith." Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Irv Doktor. "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith" (Time). The success of Strangers on a Train allowed Highsmith to quit "hack" writing for magazines and devote her energies full time to fiction. "Her books evoke a quiet tension, a persistent apprehension, which is all the more terrifying and suspenseful for its aura of plausibility" (Vinson, 643-44). It was adapted as a film in 1951, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger and Ruth Roman.

First edition of the author's classic first book, basis for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Margaret avec plaisir Patricia Highsmith." Near fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some of the endemic fading to the spine panel. Jacket design by Irv Doktor. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith" (Time). The success of Strangers on a Train allowed Highsmith to quit "hack" writing for magazines and devote her energies full time to fiction. "Her books evoke a quiet tension, a persistent apprehension, which is all the more terrifying and suspenseful for its aura of plausibility" (Vinson, 643-44). It was adapted as a film in 1951, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Farley Granger and Ruth Roman.

First edition. First edition of her first and best known novel. The author is (rightly) regarded as one of the greatest of all noir authors. This, Highsmith's first novel, published when she was 29, served as the basis for the excellent 1951 Warner Brothers film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde and Whitfield Cook; it starred Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, and Farley Granger. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Clive Hirschhorn / With friendly good wishes / Patricia Highsmith / 31 Oct 1987 / London." Laid-in is a typed letter signed from Hirschhorn to Highsmith on Sunday Express letterhead where he requests that she sign his copy of her book, asks not to date her inscription to him, and asks if they might meet for lunch. Her inked reply is at the bottom of his letter and signed as "Pat." Hirschhorn held an epic tenure as theater critic for the British "Sunday Express," and is the author of several books. He is considered the pre-eminent scholar on the Hollywood musical and wrote the definitive book on the subject. Near fine in dust jacket with less than the usual fading to the spine panel and with a few tiny nicks to the extremities. The front and rear covers are bright and unfaded. In her first novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life. Two men meet quite casually on the Washington-to-New York train, Guy Haines, a tennis star, and Bruno Anthony, who makes an offer to exchange murders. Bruno Anthony, will kill Guy Haines' estranged wife if Guy will kill Bruno's hated father. Guy doesn't take Bruno seriously until his wife, Miriam, is found murdered in an amusement park. Guy becomes the chief suspect, which threatens his tennis career; his romantic involvement with a U.S. senator's daughter, Anne Morton; his hopes for a political career; and even his life. When Bruno realizes that Guy isn't going to kill his father, he tells Guy that he intends to establish Guy's guilt by planting his monogrammed cigarette lighter at the scene of Miriam's murder. With Anne's help, Guy attempts to stop Bruno after rushing through an important tennis match and racing to the amusement park. Filmed in 1951 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the movie starred Farley Granger as Guy Haines, Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony, Ruth Roman as Anne Morton, Kasey Rogers as Miriam Haines, and many others. An exceptional copy of a difficult title which is rare signed or inscribed as the author rarely signed copies of her books. Attractively housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gold gilt on leather labels on the front cover and spine.