GRINDSHOW: The Selected Writings of William Lindsay Gresham.

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and a colour illustration inlay to the upper board, in the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. With black and white illustrations by Ho. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout, the closed text-block fore-edge with a small scuff. Compete with the very good dustwrapper that is rubbed at the extremities and otherwise without loss or tears.

A large collection of short stories by William Lindsay Gresham originally published in science fiction and detective pulp magazines in the 1940s and 50s, many of which have not been previously reprinted. Gresham is best known for his 1946 noir novel 'Nightmare Alley' which has been adapted for film twice, first in 1947 directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray and Helen Walker, and again in 2021 directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Colette and Rooney Mara.