Patricia Highsmith : Strangers on a Train : Thriller : Folio Society 2018

Strangers on a Train

By Patricia Highsmith

Illustrations by Geoff Grandfield

London: The Folio Society, 2018. First Thus. Hardback in red slipcase. 227 × 162 × 28 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–vii [viii–x], [1–2] 3–269 [270]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 70, 87, 143, 206, 223 and 254). Type: Sabon with Adrianna Extended for display. Printed by Nomos and bound by Josef Spinner in full grey cloth blocked in white, grey and red with a design by Grandfield; red endpapers. 

CONDITION
A very good copy with all pages clean, bright and tightly bound. Cloth binding good with just a couple of small grubby marks as can be seen in the images provided. In a very good slipcase. No writing or names to the book. Overall a fine copy.

Highsmith's debut novel telling the tale of two men who meet by chance and toy with the idea of exchanging murders - an idea that quickly spirals into obsession and manipulation. The novel, a brilliant psychological thriller, was famously adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde.

(Glass Cabinet 4, Lower Shelf)