Strangers on a Train.
de Highsmith, Patricia
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. 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.
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- Librería
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 120276
- Título
- Strangers on a Train.
- Autor
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Harper & Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1950
- Palabras clave
- Patricia Highsmith First Edition, Strangers on a Train First Edition Signed
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- Rubbing
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...