Author: Cain, James M[allahan. 1892 - 1977]
Title: The POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. Pocket Book 443
Description: New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1947. 1st edition thus, i.e. 1st Pocket Books edition. Publisher's color pictorial stiff-stock laminated paper covers. Red edgestain. [6], 121, [1 (advert)] pp. 6-3/8" x 4-3/16". General wear. Vertical crease lines to covers. Usual age-toning to paper. A VG copy. Cain's classic hard-boiled mystery, & basis for 2 excellent films, is termed by Robin Smiley, author of BOOKS INTO FILM & editor of FIRSTS! magazine, as one of the "very finest novels of its age. Its spare style, the audacity of its conception and its inexorable pace make it as impossible to put down today as it was when it was first published.." This novel, and his subsequent story "Double Indemnity", "served to establish Cain as the toughest of the tough writers." [Smiley. FIRSTS. Vol V, No 6].

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