Recoil

New York: Lion Book by arrangement with Prime Publications, [1953]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16cm.); original pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained dark purple-black; 128pp. Upper wrapper with several faint crease marks, general shelf-wear, else About Very Good. Early Thompson novel about a newly-paroled man escaping assassination. Institutionally scarce with OCLC locating two copies as of February, 2016, at Stanford and Tulsa.