THE LADY IN THE LAKE

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light green cloth with dark green titles to the upper board and spine, in the Norman Reeves illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription in ink to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the bright price-clipped dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and nicked to the spine tips and corners. An attractive example in entirely original condition.

6000 copies of the first edition were printed. The basis for the 1947 film noir starring Robert Montgomery (who also directed), Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. (Bruccoli A4.1a; Hubin; Johnson: The Dark Page).