Blochman lawrence translator (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First English Paperback Edition / Third Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 143pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (14/2).

First Edition. [Mystery novel] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression, translated by Lawrence G. Blochman. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.187 [1]. Publisher's jade cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Beverly LeBarrow, priced £2.95. Fine, in a near fine jacket with one nick at crown. A psychological thriller; an actor and a divorcee meet in a deserted New York City after hours bar. With little in common save loneliness, middle age, and a presentiment of escape, they improvise a love story. The fragility and fear that drive their experiment from moment to moment, bedroom to bedroom, transform this boy-meets-girl into a literary potboiler in which risk becomes salvation. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p.167 (2002), Steinbrunner and Penzler; Ency. of Mystery and Detection, p.363-5 (1976).…