Patricia Highsmith SIGNED. Strangers on a Train. Cresset Press, UK, 1950.

Price: US$774.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 1st Edition 1950. Tipped in signed slip attached to the title page. Correct 1st state book confirming to all points. Bound in full leather with elaborate tooling and gilt work. Hand marbled endpapers. Page tops with gold gilt. Wonderful production quality. Book is fine and in very nice condition. Contents good. More images available upon request. RefA1234

Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom

HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Strangers on a Train. The Cresset Press, London, 1950.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First English edition. Near fine with light wear at the edges and foxing on the endpapers and page edges in very good or better dust jacket with wear at the spine ends, some toning on the rear panel and some creasing and a scrape at the top of the front panel. Inscribed by the author: "For Albert Newgarden, I'm touched to see the old Cresset edition, which represents the open-armed reception that Europe gave me. Patricia Highsmith 7 June 1991." Author's ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis for each other. It established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.