IT'S CLEANER ON THE INSIDE by Bright, John - 1961

London: Neville Spearman. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Plain black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. No shelf wear except one small frayed spot in the middle of the front edge on the front board. End papers clean and unmarked, no stamps or writing. Text block clean, no underlining. Unclipped dust jacket almost perfect except for soiling on back cover. Crime - with an almighty punch" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages .

London: Neville Spearman. Very Good in Very Good+ dj. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. [spine a little turned, boards a little bowed, shallow dent at top of front cover, light age-toning to page edges; jacket just a bit edgeworn, one tiny tear at top of spine, another tiny closed tear at top of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep (see addtional note below). The second of only two books published by this noted screenwriter during his lifetime (and his only novel to see print), this Dostoyevskian tale of a rebellious young man who works his way up in the San Francisco underworld until "tragedy, horror and disintegration" land him in San Quentin was published only in England. This was not unrelated to the fact that the author -- one of the founding fathers of the Hollywood chapter of the Communist Party USA -- had essentially gone into self-imposed exile in Mexico not long after having been interrogated by HUAC investigators in… Read More