The Living and the Dead (First UK Edition) by Boileau, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac - 1956

Arrow Books. 1958. Arrow Books. London. 1958. No. 505. Paperback. Minor creasing and wear to spine. Pages slightly browned, otherwise a clean and sound copy. VERY SCARCE.

London: Hutchinson, 1956. First British Edition. Preceded only by the wrappered French First, the British Edition was the first in hardcover and the first to be translated into English. Basis for the 1958 film noir 'Vertigo,' directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. The Dark Page, Vol.2, p.10-11. First Impression. Octavo; brick red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Light foxing to endpapers, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is the second issue, both prices clipped, resulting in an uneven cut to bottom corner of the front flap; rear panel a bit soiled, shallow chipping at crown and upper corner tips, a tiny chip at the base of the front joint, and a larger one at the lower right corner; several edgetears with attendant creasing; Very Good only.

WASHBURN Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo.".

NY: IVES WASHBURN, INC.. Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Good only copy in about near fine dust jacket. (2 lending library stamps on front end paper & paste down. Erasures from pocket removal on front end paper & paste down. Offsetting to rear end paper, with light remnants of pocket removal on paste down. Traces of soiling at margins on a few pages in text. Creasing to tips of some pages in text. 1"-inch tear at base of front panel of DJ. 1"-inch tear at upper seam of rear cover of jacket & flap. Faint evidence of damp soiling at base of rear cover of jacket. ) Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." .

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. [spine slightly turned, a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers, age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped (with old small internal tape repairs) at spine ends (no impact on text), faint (almost invisible) vertical crease in spine, light soiling to rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel]. Yep, it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was (rather freely) adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into film" collector, and considerably scarcer for some reason in the American edition than in the British, which preceded it by a year -- although if you're into that "true first edition" business, you really ought to be on the lookout for the French… Read More

New York: Ives Washburn. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Gray cloth, black titling. Slight spine lean, spine ends nudged. Tiny letter "p" in ink on ffep. Small liquid stain on a few page edges. Price-clipped jacket in mylar lightly chipped/rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .