The Wages of Fear

London: The Bodley Head, 1952. Very Good/Very Good -. London: The Bodley Head, 1952. First UK Edition. Octavo. 191pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and creased with light spotting; heaviest loss to spine ends. Boards lightly shelfworn and previous owner has affixed a small patch of paper, colored in black, to top of front joint, presumably to fill in a portion where jacket is chipped. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound; faint musty odor. Sparse spotting to interior, else unmarked. A Very Good copy in a Good to Very Good dust jacket.

Basis for the 1953 thriller directed by Henri-Georges-Clouzot, which Pauline Kael called, "the most original and shocking French melodrama of the 50s... When you can be blown up at any moment only a fool believes that character determines fate." Also basis for the 1977 William Friedkin masterpiece, Sorcerer.