The Last Mile

New York: Samuel French, 1930. First Edition, wrappered variant. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Audrey and Bill / Happy we are together / John Wexley / 2/14/46." Name stamp of one of the inscribees, Audrey Wood of Westport, Connecticut, on the front endpaper.

Basis for the 1959 film noir starring Mickey Rooney and Frank Conroy.

Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. A few faint reader's creases on the spine, and faint offsetting on the endpapers, else fresh and unread. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box.

The Dark Page II: 1959-1965, p. 200.


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