They Don't Dance Much
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.
First edition. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Endpapers a bit foxed with slight offsetting, spine cloth a bit rubbed along edges, a tiny light stain near head. Jacket spine panel moderately sunned, well-worn along edges, chipped head and worn tail, small chip in top of front panel, price intact ($2.50). The author's only book, an unjustly-obscure "country noir" novel acclaimed by the likes of Daniel Woodrell, George V. Higgins, Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Chandler. Quite scarce in its original pictorial jacket by George Kelley ominously showing the roadhouse/filling-station where the story takes place. Item #160328006
Price: $1,800.00