8vo. Original black cloth gilt, spine gilt-lettered, top edge stained red (gilt-lettering on spine touched up); original unclipped dust jacket (a few paper repairs verso and some light restoration to rear panel and top edge of spine panel).

FIRST EDITION. The third novel in Woolrich's "Black" series, the basis for the 1943 film noir The Leopard Man produced by Val Lewton, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Margo. Hubin, p.879; Johnson, The Dark Page, p.288.