Compulsion

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition.

Based on the Leopold and Loeb trial, about two college students who kidnap and kill a young boy in order to prove their superiority. Basis for the 1957 Broadway play, and for the 1959 film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Orson Welles.

Near Fine in a Very Good plus jacket. Pages toned as usual, with a small chip to the middle of the fore-edge of three leaves, pages xxiii-xxvii. Jacket with light toning to the spine and flap folds.

[Book #157790]