Item #25301 KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS. Gerald Butler.

KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A dark mystery. The violent protaganist kills a man and eventually lands in jail for another crime. A woman whom, he can't stay away from, tries to keep him out of trouble. A witness to the murder comes forward and the woman murders him. "A tight narrative of recklessness, ruthlessness, which in its way is holding." - Kirkus Review, 28 February, 1946. Basis for the film noir of the same title with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine. Hubin, p. 123. Johnson, The Dark Page (1), p. 42. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 220. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 159-160. A very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with shallow loss at the corner tips and spine ends, rubs marks to jacket have been touch up with blank ink, closed tear at the lower left front edge at spine fold and a small closed tear at the upper right front edge at fold. (25301). Item #25301

Price: $125.00

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