London: Victor Gollancz, 1935.
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a chipped and worn, fair only dustwrapper that has split along one spine fold. Inscribed by the author: "To Olive Hart affectionately Emlyn Williams 1935." Olive Hart was a Philadelphia woman with whom Williams would stay when he was in the city, and whom he would visit when he was in New York. Williams directed and played the lead role in both the London and New York productions. One of the relatively few plays listed in *Hubin*, a thriller about a psychopathic killer who charms his way into a household. Richard Thorpe directed the acclaimed 1937 film with Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell, remade with Albert Finney in the lead in 1964.
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