Resultados da Pesquisa: the snail watcher and other stories por highsmith patricia

Doubleday & Company. Fair. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with typical markings checkout card in the rear has been removed leaving glue residue and some paperloss. Binding is cocked and split in endpapers at the rear board joint, but not seperated. Front inside has an old price penned in. Not a great copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Graham Greene. Corners a trifle bumped and very faint stain at the foot, else near fine in lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with slight sticker shadow over the price and corresponding light stain visible only on the inside. Author's first collection of short stories.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine ends. (1726). Octavo, boards. Review slip laid in. The author's first story collection. Collects the title story and ten others, including the Edgar nominated "The Terrapin" which is influenced by her love-hate relationship with her mother. "In this volume of strange and often disturbing tales, Highsmith demonstrates her skill as a short-story writer." "This is a first-rate collection that will make you want to read more of Highsmith's short fiction..." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 360-361. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 93.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. xiv, 177 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Very good plus in very good plus pictorial dust jacket by Tim Lewis; author photo by Jerry Bauer. Signed by the author or a bookplate, tipped to front flyleaf. First edition. xiv, 177 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "She is a writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustropobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger ... Nothing is certain when we have crossed this frontier. It is not the world as we once believed we knew it, but it is frighteningly more real to us than the house next door" - from the Introduction by Graham Greene. Uncommon collection of tales of psychological horror by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, including the Edgar nominated story "The Terrapin", and "The Snail-Watcher".

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970., 1970. First edition. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in and inscribed by the author "For ---- on 22 Oct. 1981, New York, Patricia Highsmith." Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with two tiny rubs to head of spine. With an introduction by Graham Greene. Eleven extraordinary tales by a master of psychological suspense. Includes the Edgar nominated story "The Terrapin." Published in the U. K. using the title "Eleven." Attractive copy.