Strangers on a Train
HIGHSMITH, Patricia
From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 25, 1997
From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since July 25, 1997
About this Item
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*. Seller Inventory # 536483
Bibliographic Details
Title: Strangers on a Train
Publisher: Harper and Brothers, New York
Publication Date: 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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