Patricia Highsmith | Strangers on a Train, 1950, first edition of the author's first book

Patricia Highsmith

Strangers on a Train. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950

FIRST EDITION (coded "FIRST EDITION | B-Z") OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 8vo, original light blue cloth lettered in blue, DUST-JACKET, minor fading to sections of cloth, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss, spine faded and minor abrasions to lower panel

The author's first novel was filmed almost immediately by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler.

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection