Brighton Rock An Entertainment

New York: Viking, 1958. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth two toned cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 558 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Published June, 1938, one month previous to the English edition with $2.50 dust wrapper price. Backstrip slightly darkend, some rubbing to dust wrapper spine head and foot. Pinkie takes over the gang in this murder thriller set in 1930s in the seaside resort of Brighton. Orig. dark salmon, silver and black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver.