The Desperate Hours

New York: Random House, 1955. This is the play of the famous novel. Housed in a price-clipped DW, with "Vagabond Theatre Copy" penned at top of front panel; basis for the 1955 film with stills from the play with Paul Newman and Karl Malden; 186pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+ Price-Clipped.

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean. Jacket with faint toning overall and two tiny closed tears, one at the heel and one on the top right of the front panel.

VG+ / VG 1954 Random House, first edition / third printing. Hardcover. Signed by author Joseph Hayes. Novel was turned into a stage play, then filmed with Humphrey Bogart (his last screen role). Un-clipped dust jacket is worn, but holding up OK.

NY: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first printing hardcover. Charcoal cloth, gilt, pictorial onlay, black topstain. Scuff to front cover; shallow loss to spine foot; spine head has a small split. Else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, toned, with small loss… Read more about this item

Andre Deutsch, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 290 g.; VI, 7-240 pages, last two pages blank intentionally. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book edges. Browning and offset tanning to the end pages and light age toning to the… Read more about this item

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1954). 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [binding slightly shaken, light age-browning to top- and fore-edge; jacket edgeworn, with a few surface-nicks and very shallow chipping at top of spine; note also that the jacket is somewhat unevenly faded due to laminate removal (much had peeled away over time… Read more about this item

New York: Random House. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in a Good dust jacket. Tears to jacket edges. Spine is cocked. Most of original jacket laminate has peeled off. Stated First Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Random House, 1953. Joseph Hayes' original typed manuscript for his most famous novel, "The Desperate Hours," with numerous authorial typeovers and editorial corrections. Stamps from the James Brown Agency (author's agent), date stamp of Sept 15 1953 and hand notation "Random House New York" to the title page. The book was published by Random House… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1955. Hardcover. Slight wear to head and foot of spine. Slight denting to the bottom front corner. Top front and rear corners lightly bumped. Browning DJ wrapped in new mylar sleeve. Neat ownership signature and date to FFEP. Overall a tight and clean copy in very good condition. Now in archival mylar sleeve. in very… Read more about this item

Random House, 1954. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Signed by Author. Third printing. Light wear to the edges; pages toned; a good solid binding. No jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author inside. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 199482. . … Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.,302pp. Beautiful Stated First Printing, bound in black cloth. Originally published by Michael Joseph in the UK several years earlier. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no toning or foxing; just a touch of off-setting to end-papers. Gentle bumping to crown. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($3,50),… Read more about this item

VG+ / VG 1955 Random House, first edition. Hardcover. The screenplay version based on his novel of the previous year. It was filmed shortly thereafter and ended up being Humphrey Bogart's last screen role. There is a small chip missing from the rear of the dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1954. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Third Printing.. New York: Random House, 1954. Third printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Third printing of the first edition, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with deep pink decoration n cover, pink and blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1954. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition 3rd printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 302 Pages Inscribed " To Pierre Berton With All Best Wishes Joseph Hayes " Includes Business Card Of Winston Barron Paramount Pictures..

Pan Books Ltd, London, 1956. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback, depicting Fredric March, Martha Scott, Mary Murphy and Richard Eyerfrom the film of the same name, binding with black and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. The… Read more about this item

Andre Deutsch, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 1955. First Edition. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Unequal tanning to endpaper corresponding with jacket flaps. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean.

Mayflower Books, 1975. Paperback. Good. 1975. No edition remarks. 223 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking… Read more about this item

New York: Permabook. Near Fine. 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Book is in excellent condiiton. Suspense novel about a middle class family whose home is invaded by dangerous escaped convicts. Popular movie with Humphrey Bogart. First Edition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 210 pages .

London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart copy of Hayes' taut drama that follows what happens when the home of an ordinary family is invaded by a trio of escaped criminals. First edition thus, third impression. With pictorial unclipped dustwrapper. Joseph Hayes was an American author and playwright… Read more about this item

London / Toronto: Samuel French, 1984. Softcover. Near Fine. Pale blue printed wrappers. Original price stamped on front wrapper, spine a touch faded, a near fine copy.