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NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold and green, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, top edge stained green. First edition. The author's first book. "Grotesque thriller in which a carnival huckster tries to exploit the tricks of his trade in carving out a career as a high society occultist. Its deployment of carnival bizarrerie links it to THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (1935) and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-58. Basis for the 1947 film noir (the film was directed by Edmund Goulding and starred Coleen Gray and Joan Blondell). Recently remade. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 122.
NIGHTMARE ALLEY.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold and green, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, top edge stained green. First edition. The author's first book. "Grotesque thriller in which a carnival huckster tries to exploit the tricks of his trade in carving out a career as a high society occultist. Its deployment of carnival bizarrerie links it to THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO (1935) and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 4-58. Basis for the 1947 film noir (the film was directed by Edmund Goulding and starred Coleen Gray and Joan Blondell). Recently remade. [Reference: Hubin, p. 352. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 122].