Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Brown, Fredric. The Screaming Mimi. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1949.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: Octavo
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. The Screaming Mimi. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1949.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover rubbed with edgewear. Pages clean & tight. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Fredric Brown. The Screaming Mimi. E.P. Dutton & Co., NY, 1949.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 248 pp, the book and contents are solid and clean, the pages are clean and endpapers have light browning and blue dye on top of page edges has faded on them in several very small spots, the covers are solid and have light wear and soil, the dust jacket has soil and wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Fredric Brown. Screaming Mimi. E. P. Dutton, 1949.
Price: US$10.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1949. No Edition Remarks. 248 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Yellow cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Top edge of text block has been dyed, slightly staining each page. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed. Small split to spine head at joint.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1949.
Price: US$21.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early mystery-thriller by Brown, who learned his craft writing for the mystery and sci-fi pulps and whose work fostererd a fan cult that continues a half-century after his death. When Brown is good, he is very, very good and "The Screaming Mimi" is one of those. An Irish, alcoholic newspaper reporter in Chicago is so affected by the beauty of the fourth victim of a serial killer that he sobers up enough to begin his own hunt for the killer. As he gets close to his goal, he finds himself the target of madness and death. The book became the basis for a 1958 movie starring Anita Eckberg and Gypsy Rose Lee. This copy is a Dutton's book club, "Guilt Edged Mystery," First Edition Thus. 248 pages in bright yellow cloth boards showing slightly bumped corners and light surface wear. Text shows a bit of age-tanning and light foxing on the end papers and edges, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, binding tight and square. Sorry, no dustjacket. Makes a very decent reading copy of one of Brown's classic stories.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
BROWN, Fredric. The Screaming Mimi. E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1949.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; yellow paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 248, [8]pp. Slight forward lean, mild rubbing to extremities, with faint foxing and dustiness to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), flap edges trimmed 1cm short, with wear and nicks to extremities, several stains to jacket, with a small piece of tape at center of front panel; Good to Very Good. Basis for Gerd Oswald's 1958 film noir, starring Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, and Gypsy Rose Lee. HUBIN, p.54.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 248pp. Yellow cloth, title printed on spine in blue. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Clean text, lightly worn bottom edge of cloth, some foxing to outer edge of text block. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, lightly soiled from handling, chipping at edges of spine, some toning to spine. Fredric Brown was an American science fiction, mystery, short fantasy and black comedy writer. His first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, won an Edgar Award for outstanding mystery novel. Another novel, The Screaming Mimi, was adapted into a film in 1958. He is widely considered one of the best Science Fiction Writers of the 20th Century. Fredric Brown died in 1972, having published over 100 works of fiction. Since his death, many of his early pulp novels have been republished and have found a cult following.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1949.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward. A very good copy, light foxing to end papers, covers show some dust soiling in a very good dust jacket, small chip to base of front panel, some mild soiling. (11572)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1949.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward. A near fine copy, previous owner address label affixed to front paste down in a near fine price clipped dust jacket which has some age darkening to the spine panel, some light rubbing to corners and spine ends. (8281)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. One of Brown's three major suspense novels. "MIMI is the story of an alcoholic Chicago reporter named Sweeney and his search for a beautiful woman and a Ripper-style killer; it is also an allegorical retelling of 'Beauty and the Beast.'" - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 93. Basis for the 1958 film noir of the same name with Anita Ekberg. Slight spine lean, touch of rubbing to crown of spine panel, a near fine copy in bright, nearly fine dust jacket with some faint wrinkling at head of spine panel and upper corner tips. A very nice copy of one of Brown's more elusive mystery novels. (#89166)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket which show just a bit a age darkening to the spine panel, much less than usually encountered, tiny nick to head of spine panel, tiny closed tear to lower rear panel. A lovely clean and bright copy. (14198)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Brown, Fredric. THE SCREAMING MIMI. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. One of Brown's three major suspense novels. "MIMI is the story of an alcoholic Chicago reporter named Sweeney and his search for a beautiful woman and a Ripper-style killer; it is also an allegorical retelling of 'Beauty and the Beast.'" - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 93. Basis for the 1958 film noir of the same name with Anita Ekberg. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a bit age-darkening to the spine panel, much less than usually encountered, tiny nick to head of spine panel, and tiny closed tear to lower rear panel. A lovely bright, clean copy. (#137083)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.