AFTER-DINNER STORY

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in black to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips, the cloth with a few light marks. The contents, with hand written printer's code to the front endpaper (this example was the printer's copy), and a little toning to the page edges, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has small chips at the tips of the mildly toned spine. Not price-clipped ($2.00 to the lower front flap). Housed in a bespoke green cloth solander case with titles in gilt on a black morocco label to the backstrip.

A collection of six stories including 'After-Dinner Story', 'The Night Reveals', 'An Apple a Day', 'Marihuana', 'Rear Window' and 'Murder Story'. 'Rear Window' [previously published in magazine form under the title 'It Had To Be Murder'] formed the basis for the 1954 multi Academy Award nominated Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. (Queen's Quorum #97; Hubin).