Flamingo Road

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First Edition, one of only a handful of copies made with publisher's trial dust jacket. Basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, and Sydney Greenstreet. Rare.

Very Good in a Very Good example of the variant trial dust jacket. Board edges moderately rubbed, with faint soil and foxing on the endpapers, and an owner signature on the front pastedown. Jacket spine panel lightly toned, with a vertical crease and a small bruise, and a few splashes.

The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 272.

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