Black Alibi

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. First Edition. Basis for Jacques Tourneur's 1943 film "The Leopard Man," one of the famed Val Lewton productions of the early 1940s.

Very Good in a Good to Very Good jacket. Book has a moderate lean, an owner name on the front endpaper, foxing to the bright red topstain, and a tide mark along the bottom edge of the front board. Jacket has a few small chips at the corners and spine ends, and is sigificantly rubbed and creased, with numerous cellotape repairs to the verso (see images).

The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 288.

[Book #167444]