Brown, Fredric

The Far Cry

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. "George Weaver was looking for peace and quiet, not murder, when he rented a house ten miles outside of the town of Taos, New Mexico. However, murder soon comes to occupy George's sleeping and waking thoughts when he begins to dig out the details of a celebrated, unsolved case which had happened years before in the very house he is living in. He finds himself falling in love with the dead girl, Jenny Ames, idealizing her, wishing it were she he had married instead of Vi, to whom he is so unwillingly and unhappily married." (from front flap) A classic vintage mystery-horror novel by Fredric Brown (1906-1972), the noted prolific American writer who was an acknowledged precursor & influence-inspiration to Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Stephen King & other acclaimed authors in fantasy, mystery, science fiction & other genres. Hardcover in unclipped (except for shallow clips at lower corner-edges as issued) first-issue dust jacket (with $2.50 price printed at front flap, list of some of Brown's preceding novels at back cover), first edition as stated on copyright page, presumed first printing with no references to further printings thereon. A production of publisher's "Guilt Edge Mystery" series as noted on spine, rear flap of dust jacket. "A most adroit, inventive and utterly horrifying mystery" (front flap); a key Brown collectible in its rarest original form. See also our item No.s 5405, 5418, 5439. Book in very fine condition with only a touch of rubbing to front, back covers & spine (silver-gilt letters & graphics at spine completely bright & intact); light wear, fading at edges & corners of same; mild-to-moderate browning & occasional spotting to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only mild browning to blank paste-downs, endpapers & page leaves (the latter mostly at blank margins/edges). Dust jacket relatively fine with mild rubbing, browning & faint scratching to front, back covers, spine & flaps; very slight wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same esp. spine-edges & corners incl. some tiny chips with miniscule loss of paper, surface paper; small areas of spot-stains, ink(?) marks from upper spine-edge slightly onto covers, lower right area of back cover adjacent to spine; flaps esp. rear flap. Very Fine / Fine. [Item #5749]

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