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The Snail-Watcher and other stories. [Introduction by Graham Greene]

The Snail-Watcher and other stories. [Introduction by Graham Greene]

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The Snail-Watcher and other stories. [Introduction by Graham Greene]

by Highsmith, Patricia

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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".

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Title
The Snail-Watcher and other stories. [Introduction by Graham Greene]
Author
Highsmith, Patricia
Format/Binding
Xiv, 177 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Black cloth. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Very good plus in very good plus pictorial dust jacket by Tim Lewis; author photo b
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First edition
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
Garden City, New York
Date Published
1970
Keywords
Science Fiction / Fantasy | Detective Fiction
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