Search Results: dark passions by malloy fred

NY: Woodford Press, 1951. First. Hard Cover. Yes. First edition. Hardcover; 250 pps. A first novel by this author (who would go on to pen such classics as "Strumpet Seed" and "Wild Hunger"), a "brutally frank study of a man's complete and utter degeneration brought about by ...his weak nature and a set of circumstances..." Which included booze and loose women. Near fine, small prev. own. lable and two inked letters on the front free endpaper. In typically lurid dust jacket illustrated with (mostly empty) liquor bottle and (completely) naked lady (?).

New York: Woodford Press, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Woodford Press, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition of author's first book, in unclipped original jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 250 pp. Clean jacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), has slight wear to jacket corners, 1/4" closed tear at top jacket spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A brutally frank novel about a man's complete and utter degeneration brought about by a combination of his weak nature and a set of circumstances arranged by fate and misfortune..