To Catch a Thief
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1946.
New York: The Dial Press, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's deep grey cloth stamped in dark blue. Good. Lean to spine, boards slightly bowed with creasing to front board visible to cloth and front pastedown, rear pastedown visibly creased. Pages toned, foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. In a Good dust jacket with rubbing and wear, a large chip at the tail and to top of the rear panel near the spine. Not to be confused David Dodge's novel bearing the same title, which served for the basis of the Alfred Hitchcock film. Written under pseudonym by Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig), who was often referred to as the "Dorothy Parker of detective fiction."
Price: $1,250.00