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Author: Thompson, Jim
Title: Heed the Thunder
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Greenberg
Date Published: [1946]
Description:

Red cloth, dust jacket; housed in custom red cloth dropback box with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt. First Edition.

The author‘s own copy, with the title page annotated in blue pen in the author‘s hand: "Copyright 1946 / by / Greenberg: Publisher / Copyright 1973 / by / Jim Thompson." Author‘s copy of Thompson‘s scarce second novel, a masterful noir thriller. Thompson‘s first three books were published in hardcover, but apparently did not sell well. Thereafter all of his novels were issued as paperback originals, many of them in the short-lived but now considered classic Lion Library series. Thompson went on writing pulp fiction for decades but it was only in recent years that he has been retrospectively recognized as a master of the genre. Several of his novels have been turned into well-received movies, including The Grifters, Coup de Torchon, The Getaway (twice) and others. This book was published by a small publisher that mostly did reprints and remainder issues.

Wear and areas of loss to jacket, front flap detached but present, rear flap nearly detached; mild soiling to cloth with rubbing to edges; light toning to endpapers, some light spotting to text block edges; very good volume in fair jacket.