The Desperate Hours

New York: Random House, 1955. Grey cloth quarto with white and red DJ (browning spine); 186 pages: b/w illustrations; 21 cm Slight wear to head and foot of spine. Slight denting to the bottom front corner. Top front and rear corners lightly bumped. Browning DJ wrapped in new mylar sleeve. Neat ownership signature and date to FFEP. Overall a tight and clean copy in very good condition. Now in archival mylar sleeve. in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Contains b/w photographs ll Harrowing story about an escaped convict who breaks into a suburban home and takes a family hostage ll Psychological fiction. Scripts.