Thieves' Market
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.
First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in original dust jacket, unclipped ($3.00), chipped at extremities, else Very Good with spine panel dulled, tape shadow on back panel upper corner. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to make commercial trucking in California the stuff of great drama and suspense, which is no small feat. Item #140939444
Price: $400.00
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