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New York: Rinehart & Co., 1946. First U.S. edition. When a little girl is murdered in a small English village, townspeople vow vengeance. James Wilson is sent up from London to see that justice is done and finds his growing love for a pretty blind woman greatly complicates matters. Basis for the 1951 Nicholas Ray movie "On Dangerous Ground" starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan and Ward Bond. Ex-lending library with stickers to the front and spine of the jacket, stamps to the front end papers and edges of the text block. Bumped and rubbed. Jacket trimmed and price clipped, attached to a stiff paper backing in an old style edged protector with the flaps glued to the pastedowns. The plastic on the protector has been removed leaving the edges and tape to the flaps. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Ex-Library.

London, United Kingdom: Jarrolds Publishers, 1945. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, possibly a reprint although "First published 1945" only statement, 136 pages; black cloth covers with yellowish/green spine lettering, hardly a trace of shelf wear, large circular rubber stamp inside front cover of "Canadian Auxiliary Services" with four Canadian charities named around edges (possibly a giveaway wartime copy?), overall very gently used, text pages very clean and unmarked, but binding appears fragile and slightly uneven; DJ rubbed and worn, numerous tiny chips and tears, about three quarters of back inside flap torn away, but front panel pictorial still bright and clean (original price "7/6 net"). . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

London: Jarrolds, 1945. 1st . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First printing UK edition. 136 pp., red cloth with black spine titles. Text is Nearly Fine with firm binding, minimal wear, no fading, no owner's inscription. Only flaw to text is small owner's label tipped onto ffep stating "Filmed as "On Dangerous Ground" by Nicholas Ray wtih Ida Lupino Robert Ryan". Dust jacket is not price-clipped (original 6s. price present), expected edge-wear/chipping and darkening to white sections. A NF/Good copy overall. Photos available.

London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]., 1945. First edition. First edition. Very good copy in a colorful, bright dust jacket with tiny nicks to the spine ends and extremities. A detective meets up with a criminal and is ready to arrest him, when local townspeople want to take the law into their own hands. The detective finds himself fighting in the snow to save the man he was trying to arrest. The story is the basis for the classic 1952 film noir "On Dangerous Ground," directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, and Ward Bond. Scarce in dust jacket and this jacket is one of the nicest we have handled of this fragile wartime title. An attractive copy and very scarce in this condition.