Dreadful Summit

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 181pp. Red cloth bound boards with gilt stamping to spine wrapped in publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.50). Top stained black. Jacket generally scuffed, rubbed, and soiled with toning to joints and minor tears to margins. Previous owner's tape repair to bottom of front joint at verso. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped with superficial scratches to top edge. Minor toning to endsheet margins and brief pencil to rear free endsheet. Publisher's information request card laid in at front. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket of the author's first novel.

The story follows a sixteen year old who has decided to avenge his father by killing the man who disgraced him. Adapted into the 1951 movie starring John Drew Barrymore and Preston Foster.