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THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: Life and Death on the Roaring Highway by Bezzerides, A.I - 1950

by Bezzerides, A.I

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THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: Life and Death on the Roaring Highway by Bezzerides, A.I - 1950

THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: Life and Death on the Roaring Highway

by Bezzerides, A.I

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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. First printing. (Original title: Long Haul). Dell Mapback #416. Vintage Paperback. Front cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Ten Interior illustrations by Edward Smalle. Illustrations were done especially for the Dell edition and were not in the original hardcover. Back cover map of California and westrn Nevada. A.I. Bezzerides' important first book, leading to a film and an extremely successful and consistently impressive screenwriting career in the American film studios. Basis for the superb 1940 Raoul Walsh film "They Drive By Night," starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Stanley, Robert. Vintage Paperback.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Stanley, Robert
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used - Good-Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Edition First Printing
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Place of Publication N.Y.
  • Date Published 1950
  • Keywords Hardboiled, Noir, California, Fiction, Illustrated, Paperback,

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THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT. (Formerly Published as "Long Haul.")

by Bezzerides, A.I. (Text) Smalle, Edward. (Drawings) Stanley, Robert. (Cover art)

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NY: DELL.. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback.. Dell mapback #416 with California State map on rear cover. SIGNED by A. I. Bezzerides on title page. First publication under this title. Very good copy in pictorial printed wrappers. (Trace of creasing on covers. Spine lightly shelf worn. ) Author's FIRST book and basis for the Raoul Walsh film of the same title. .
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