Experiment Perilous

Boston: Little, Brown, 1943. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Rosejeanne / who has had a finger in this brew from its very beginning, with love / Margaret Carpenter Richardson." With the author's additional annotations to the copyright page (noting "Author's Copy") and epigraph (two exclamation points).

Basis for the 1944 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring George Brent and Hedy Lamarr.

Hint of fray to the crown and corners, page edges lightly toned, overall about Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and a few small bruises to the spine and rear panel, and a nick to the bottom right corner of the front panel. Scarce in jacket.

The Dark Page I, p. 52.

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