Night Shift [Advance Copy]

New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Publisher's advance, with the textblock glued into the finished dustjacket. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 662pp. Gentle sunning to spine, with some light rubbing to joints; Near Fine, and very scarce in this format. "A ruthless, dramatic, fatalistic picture of cruelty and fear in a small factory town in wartime," with an accurate treatment of boardinghouse life, restaurants, hospitals, factories, and nightclubs - a studied representation of how the other half lives. Basis for the 1947 film noir The Man I Love, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda. COAN p.88; HANNA 3877.