Burnside Rare Books

Beat the Devil

Cockburn, Claud [writing as James Helvick]

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1951.

First American edition. 256 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in black. A Very Good copy with foxing to edges and endpapers, slightly musty, a few tiny stains to top edge, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little short for the book (as appears to be typical), foxed, a little edge-worn and scuffed.

The basis of the 1953 film directed by John Huston. The author was a British journalist caught up in the Red Scare, and father of journalists Andrew, Patrick, and Alexander Cockburn, the latter of whom borrowed this book's title for the title of his opinion column. Item #140940446

Price: $500.00