Man Drowning by Kuttner, Henry (1914-1958) (Aka: Lawrence O'Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, Charles Stoddard ) - 1953

Bantam Books. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. , 1953 first edition . 1154 very good, creases Cover by Mitchell Hooks. paperback,

Four Square, 1961. First Edition. good. good 1st Four Square 341 1961 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale gold paper covered boards, lettered in red. Mild soiling to covers, bumped corners (no exposure). Firm, square binding, clean interior with mild toning along hinges. 215 pp. Stated 1st edition. Color illus. dust jacket is typically somewhat toned by age, with rubbed joints and flap folds, minor loss to corners and spine extremities, two closed tears along bottom rear edge, front flap price intact, now in mylar. One of Kuttner's few, and among his earliest, excursions into noir. Very scarce..

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale gold paper covered boards, lettered in red. Light shelf wear, with a few slight marks to covers. Firm, square binding, clean interior with mild toning along hinges. 215 pp. Stated 1st edition. Color illus. dust jacket w/ price-clipped front flap, toning along rear flap fold and top rear flap edge, mild toning/soiling to rear panel, a few soil marks and light dampstaining to lower portion of front panel, now in mylar. One of Kuttner's few, and among his earliest, excursions into noir. Very scarce..

Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2016. unsigned. Hardcover. New, shrink-wrapped/new. New. Shrink-wrapped, unsigned, ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US, not slow media mail. Welcome to Man Drowning, a noir tale if ever there was one. First published in hardback by Harper & Brothers in 1952, it wouldn't have been at all out of place in the Gold Medal paperback line of the same year. Nick Banning, the book's narrator, is a blue-collar guy and a war vet, like so many of the characters in noir books and films. And like them, he has problems, chief among them his almost uncontrollable anger and his obsessive love of a woman named Sherry, to whom he was once married. He finds Sherry in Arizona and tries to convince her, and himself, that he's changed, that his obsession with her won't lead him to do the kinds of things he did in the past. Sherry knows better, Nick knows better, the reader knows better, and his downward spiral has already begun.