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The Night of the Hunter
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The Night of the Hunter Paperback - 1977

by Davis Grubb


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  • Title The Night of the Hunter
  • Author Davis Grubb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 220
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Date 1977-05-26
  • ISBN 9780140044263 / 0140044264
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77001711
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Davis Grubb (1919 1980) was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, he moved to New York City in 1940 to be a writer. His stories were published in magazines such as Collier s, Cosmopolitan, and Woman s Home Companion, and in three collections. The Night of the Hunter, the first of his ten novels, was an instant bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. Some of his short stories were adapted for television on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Rod Serling s Night Gallery; his novel Fools Parade was the basis for a 1971 film starring James Stewart."
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The Night of The Hunter
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The Night of The Hunter

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Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrated paperback binding with pale pink and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Harry Powell, a murderous ex-convict, misrepresents himself as a prison chaplain to go to the home of his now dead cellmate and convinces his widow, with two children, to marry him. He has hopes that the children will tell him where their father buried the proceeds of his last robbery. He kills their mother, and then hunts for the children who have fled sensing his evil. Rubbing of the book edges and panels and there is a erosion mark to the top edge of the rear panel. Remnants of a sticker to the rear panel. Age toning of the text block edges and pages with a bed remainder stripe to the lower text edge. Some fine foxing to the text edges. first publication by this publisher. Size: 12 mo (standard paperback). 220, [4] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More
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The Night of the Hunter
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The Night of the Hunter

by Davis Grubb

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780140044263 / 0140044264
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