EACH DAWN I DIE by Odlum, Jerome - 1938

Literary Licensing, LLC. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011-10-15. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First. Good. Stated first edition. Sturdy unmarked copy with no dj. Wea4 to edges and corners.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1938). Reprint. Hardcover. [a solid, clean book, slightly bumped at top front corner, spine cloth a little mottled, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (The Village Book Shop, Carmel, Calif.); jacket is edgeworn, with a 2-inch closed tear at top of front panel, slight fading to spine]. Novel about a young newspaperman who gets the goods on a bunch of crooked politicians, but is kidnapped and framed on a hit-and-run manslaughter charge and sent to the state pen before he can give crucial testimony in court. Turned into a hard-hitting 1938 film by Warner Bros. with Jimmy Cagney and George Raft in the leads. (This edition was apparently printed from the first edition plates; although the binding and dust jacket state G&D, the internals include the original Bobbs-Merrill front matter, including the "First Edition" statement.) .

INDIANAPOLIS: BOBBS-MERRILL.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. First edition. Specially SIGNED by author Jerome Odlum on a bound-in preliminary page. INSCRIBED by a Warner Bros' motion picture studio publicity flack to theatre critic J. Willis Sayre on front end-paper. Fine in blue cloth, with gilt titles, lacking the dust jacket. Prison novel filmed by Warner Bros' starring actors James Cagney & George Raft. Uncommon. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine copy In a Rare Fine Jacket. $2.00 On Flap. Stated First Edition. Blue Cloth Boards Rare In any Condition. Great Vintage Movie. Scarce Book..

Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1938]. First edition. Some fading to spine and edges else very good to near fine in a very good dust jacket, shelf wear to edges and corners, loss along top of spine panel affecting the author's name, wear and minor loss to base of spine panel, very uncommon in dust jacket. (9637). Octavo, original blue cloth, design stamped in blind to front cover and spine, lettering stamped in gold to front and spine. Basis for the 1939 Warner Brothers film directed by William Keighley starring James Cagney as Frank Ross, a reporter who is doing a story on political corruption but is framed and sent to prison before he can get his story out. Also stars George Raft as the gangster in prison Cagney seeks help from.

Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Modest wear to the boards, very good in an about very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends, and several internal mends. Basis for the 1939 William Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly imprisoned reporter, and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he turns to for help. Exceptionally scarce in jacket.

Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Spine heavily bleached, good only in an internally lined, good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by the author: "To Jennie & Lee Luschier - my old friends. Jerome Bob Odlum. Mar. 25, 1938." Also Inscribed in another hand, presumably that of the author's wife: "To - Lee and Jennie Luschier. Mildred & Bob Odlum." Basis for the 1939 William Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly imprisoned reporter, and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he turns to for help. Scarce in jacket, and especially signed.