Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. First printing

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. Rinehart and Company, Inc. (1946). First printing with the circled R on copyright page. No additional printings listed. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" 275 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. DUST JACKET: Light edge wear and bumping to dust jacket edges. Small chipping at the top and bottom of the spine. Slight tanning. Otherwise, no unusual folds or creases. Not price-clipped with dj price of $2.50. Now protected by a removable mylar dj cover. BOOK: Bright gilt lettering on spine. Light cover edge wear. Previous owner book plate inside front cover. Some smudging inside front cover. Light tanning to paper while maintaining full paper flexibility. No other previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. IK10a"Nightmare Alley is a novel by William Lindsay Gresham published in 1946. It is a study of