The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Schenkar, Joan - 2009

St. Martin's Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

St. Martin's Press, 2009-12-08. Hardcover. Good.

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St. Martin's Press, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 684pp., a lovely copy with two b/w photograph inserts and a b/w frontispiece of Patricia Highsmith. Black boards with blue titles on the spine in a dust jacket with a b/w portrait of Highsmith. A clean copy with light lightshelfwear, else Near Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with shallow edge wear. 'Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite 'hero-criminal,' talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, 'Strangers On a Train, ' to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe.' ~ Publisher.

First Edition, first printing. Light edge and surface wear to the dust jacket from shelving and storage, including a couple of tiny nicks and creases around the edges. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

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Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover; Second Printing. ...; Hardcover. St. Martin's Press, 2009. 2nd Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .

St. Martin's Press, 2009. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A FIRST EDITION, Second Printing, from 2009, this thick (684 pages + 16 pages of black-and-white photos) hardcover small 4to has matte black cloth over boards lettered in shiny blue to spine. Condition is Near Fine: as clean & bright & tight as new save for a tad of rubbing to top edge of front boards, Else, virtually flawless in an equally Fine, unclipped DJ. Orig. published in , this is a reprint/book club/the first printing from (First, thus). With cloth-covered boards lettered in to spine, this hardcover 8vo is in condition: very clean, binding straight & strong, pages off-white, with age-appropriate tanning, heavier to edges & endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, bumped corners & spine tips. The unclipped DJ (with orig. price intact) is , with edgewear, small chips, short tears nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never… Read More

New York: St. Martin's, 2009. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(+). Frontis portrait and a handful of other b/w photos. 684 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth, d.w. New York: St. Martin's, (2009). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper, slightly scuffed and rubbed at corners.<br/> <br/>

St. Martin's Press, 2009-12-08. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap.