The Dark Tunnel
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1944.
First edition, first impression. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with offsetting to endsheets, foxing to endsheets and textblock edge, but otherwise bright and clean. In a rich, vibrantly colored example of the dust jacket with small chips to corners and spine ends, a chip at the bottom left corner of the front panel and a short closed tear to the top rear spine joint, else Fine. Unsophisticated and unclipped, a superior copy.
A WWII espionage thriller. Critics were amazed by the skillfulness and poise that it displayed for being a debut novel. The author would go on to write the Lew Archer crime novels under the pen name Ross Macdonald.
Price: $15,000.00