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Signet, 1949. Stated first edition. Mass Market Paperback. very good. NOT an ex library book. VG+

USA: Signet Book, 1949. Book. Illus. by Gregg ( GGA painted Cover.). Near Fine.. Soft cover. PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st).. 190 pages. "Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her." >> Minor pealing to laminated edges of covers. Minor creasing to backcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

signet book, , (1949 MTI Edition), first edition . 759, very good -fine, , reading crease (COLLECTION OF 2 STORIES), paperback,

NY: SIGNET.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Paperback original movie tie-in. Combines "Career In C, Major" and "The Embezzler." Filmed with Paul Douglas & Linda Darnell. A very good+ or better copy in pictorial printed wrappers. (Trace of light lamination peeling to covers. Couple mild corner creases on covers. Text lightly age toned. ) .

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Collection of 16 vintage photographs from the 1949 film, nine studio still photographs and seven promotional photographs of Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, and Celeste Holm. Based on the story "Two Can Sing" (originally titled "Career in C Major") by James M. Cain, a story originally serialized in American magazine in 1938, then published in the 1943 collection "Three of Kind" (along with "Double Indemnity"). Leonard Borland (Douglas) indulges his wife Doris (Holm) in her ambition to becoming an opera star, renting her a concert hall, where he meets real opera singer Celia Carver (Darnell), who discovers Leonard has a wonderful baritone voice. 8 x 10 inches. Uniform fading on most, otherwise Near Fine.

New York: Signet Books, 1949. No. 759. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my best congratulations on a job well-done / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / December 26, 1949." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the hands of readers. A tremendous association. This edition comprises two Cain novellas: "Everybody Does It" (originally titled "Career in C Major") and "The Embezzler." Both were originally published in the 1944 collection, "Three of a Kind." This edition was the first under the new collected title, "Everybody Does It." Near Fine in wrappers. A very attractive copy.