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SORRY, WRONG NUMBER

by Ullman, Allan; Fletcher, Lucille

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First UK edition of the novel based on Fletcher's legendary radio play, exploiting the startlingly modern anxiety that a terrible, terrible thing will happen if you make a phone call. Lucille Fletcher's SORRY, WRONG NUMBER was first written and produced as a radio play in 1943, in which form it eventually won an Edgar Award and the highest of high praise from Orson Welles (for whom she would write the equally legendary "The Hitch-Hiker.") In 1948, Fletcher adapted her story as a screenplay for what was to be a classic film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, and in the same year this novelized version, written with Allan Ullman, was published. Scarce. 7'' x 5''. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (7/6) dust jacket. 118 pages. Light edgewear; offsetting and some foxing to endpapers. Light soil to jacket panels; moderate foxing to jacket verso and chipping to spine ends.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
47499
Title
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
Author
Ullman, Allan; Fletcher, Lucille
Book Condition
Used - Very good plus in very good jacket.
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Victor Gollancz Ltd
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1948
Keywords
Thriller,Mystery,Woman Author,Books to Film,20th century,1940s,Edgar

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Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....

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