Sorry, Wrong Number (First Edition, review copy, with letter from Paramount publicity to actress Mary Nash) by Lucille and Allan Ullman Fletcher - 1948

Bantam Books. New York: Bantam Books, Inc. , , 1948 first edition . 356 very good Cover by Gilbert Darling. Movie tie-in. , paperback,

New York: Bantam Books, 1948. Softcover. Very Good. First Bantam edition. 16mo. Wrappers illustrated by Gilbert Darling. Owner stamp on the inside front cover. A few spots of delamination, wraps with modest edgewear, a couple of faint dampstains in the margins, very good only. A tie-in to the film of the same name, staring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. Bantam Books #356.

Bantam. Good. 1948. (Film/TV tie-in). Paperback. (some "laminate" peeling on cover) (some cover & spine wear) (initials on frontispiece) [1st. Bantam September 1948] (drawing on front cover of Barbara Stanwyck & film credits and two photos on back cover) (good reading copy) (appears an uncommon U. S. pb. ) .

New York: Bantam Books. Very Good+. 1948. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Illustrated covers, bright and clean, mild shelf wear. Bantam #356. Movie tie-in edition, with illustration of Barbara Stanwyck on the cover and photos of her and co-star Burt Lancaster on the rear. The story served as the basis for a book, a radio drama, and a movie. Pulp Vintage paperback. Free of any markings, not ex-library. .

New York: Bantam, 1948. Softcover. Very Good with some page age-toning and slight cover splay.. Bantam Book #356. Movie tie-in edition, based on the radio and screen play by Fletcher. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, directed by Hal Wallis and released by Paramount Pictures. The only published book source for the 1948 film noir, originally a play by Lucille Fletcher. Fletcher adapted the play for the film version in 1948, and this novelization, based on her screenplay, was published just prior to the film's release. "One of those auspicious meldings of high noir style and content that depicts a grim, hysterical situation with maximum levels of narrative depth, credibility and suspense." Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 376. Silver and Ward [eds.], Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style [3rd edition], pp. 262-263. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 394. Dramatic Gilbert Darling cover art of Stanwyck.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with a custom Random House review slip in red type, specific to this title, laid in. The only published book source for the 1948 film noir, originally a play by Lucille Fletcher. Ms. Fletcher adapted the play for the film version in 1948, and this novelization, based on her screenplay, was published just prior to the film's release. The film version was directed by Anatole Litvak and starred Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A spectacular copy.