Compulsion. First Edition, Signed
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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A Signed First Edition of Levin's Fictionalized Account of the Leopold and Loeb Murder Levin, Meyer. Compulsion. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First edition, first printing. Octavo. x, 495 pp. Publisher's gilt-stamped quarter cloth over boards, top edge stained red, deckle fore-edge. A very good copy, with light shelfwear and some fading to the spine; internally clean. Ownership signature of Harry B. Aronow to the front free endpaper ("Harry B. Aronow / 18425 Muirland"), together with a brief presentation inscription from the author, "Sincerely / Meyer Levin." $100. * Levin's celebrated novel inspired by the notorious Leopold and Loeb murder case, in which two university students attempt to execute what they believe will be the "perfect crime." First published in 1956, Compulsion became an immediate bestseller and remains one of the best-known fictional treatments of the case. From the library of Harry Burton Aronow (1909-2005), Detroit industrialist and founder of the Mohawk Zinc Corporation; a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (1933).…
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- Compulsion. First Edition, Signed
- Author
- Levin, Meyer
- Publication year
- 1956
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- Antiquarian & Scholarly, Signed Copy
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB
Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
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