Leave Her to Heaven (First Edition)
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the superb 1945 film, a late, blazing-Technicolor noir starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and Vincent Price. Scarce in this condition.
Meeting all first edition points, which include: (1) red cloth, with titles stamped in black, (2) date of 1944 at the bottom of the title page, (3) measures roughly 8 by 5.5 inches, (4) 429 pages of text, and (5) price of $2.50 on the front jacket flap. Later editions are often confused with the first, due to the fact that they were made from better materials, the opposite of normal practice. The first printing was printed under wartime restrictions in 1944, then under improved circumstances when the war ended in 1945.
Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is bright with some nicking at corners and light rubbing at extremities. In a custom green clamshell box.
The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 274.
Meeting all first edition points, which include: (1) red cloth, with titles stamped in black, (2) date of 1944 at the bottom of the title page, (3) measures roughly 8 by 5.5 inches, (4) 429 pages of text, and (5) price of $2.50 on the front jacket flap. Later editions are often confused with the first, due to the fact that they were made from better materials, the opposite of normal practice. The first printing was printed under wartime restrictions in 1944, then under improved circumstances when the war ended in 1945.
Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is bright with some nicking at corners and light rubbing at extremities. In a custom green clamshell box.
The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 274.