The Beast with Five Fingers: Twenty Tales of the Uncanny

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First American Edition. Octavo (20.8 cm), 218pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with movie tie-in photos on back panel and price intact ($2.50). Boards full bound in black cloth with blind stamping on front and gilt on spine. Fore edge deckled. Dust jacket generally smudged, creased, scuffed and torn, with a short tear and creasing to the back panel top margin; Verso soiled and lightly water stained. Board corners and spine ends bumped with water staining to top margins; boards bow away at fore edge. All edges and endsheets foxed. Some pages remain unopened and are generally clean. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket.

Harvey's short stories of terror were beloved but his most well known, The Beast with Five Fingers, was made into a movie in 1946. Starring Peter Lorre and Robert Alda, the story follows a paralyzed pianist and his staff and friends who, after his tragic death, start to see his left hand everywhere. The tie-in dust jacket has the movie stills on the back panel.