Burnside Rare Books

Thieves' Market

Bezzerides, A.I.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.

First edition. Signed by A.I. Bezzerides on the title page. [vi], 233 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with crimson lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges, tiny chip to top of back panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso, unclipped ($3.00).

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 #140945767

Price: $1,200