Benighted

London: Heinemann, (1930).

Price: $450.00

Hardcover. Relatively early reprint (first published in 1927). Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with internal tape repairs and slight wear. A nice copy of the author's scarce first mystery, basis for the classic James Whale film *The Old Dark House* featuring Boris Karloff as the brutish butler who presides over a gathering of strangers stranded in an old house in bad weather, also featuring Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Ernest Thesiger, and Raymond Massey. A scarce early edition.

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Item #369280 Benighted. J. B. PRIESTLEY.

J.B. Priestley
birth name: John Boynton Priestley
born: 9/13/1894
died: 8/14/1984

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British novelist, playwright, and essayist who is noted for his shrewd characterizations. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
In 1932, when Priestley was one of Heinemann's best-selling authors, he saw a copy of the proofs of Graham Greene's Stamboul Train and determined that he was being caricatured by Greene (who in fact had in fact never met nor read the author). Priestley threatened a libel suit and the publisher knuckled under, forcing the young and relatively unknown Greene to revise the text.more