This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/17/2023
MACDONALD, John D. (1916-1986). The Executioners. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.
8vo. Original orange cloth- backed boards, front board and spine stamped in silver (spine sunned and rubbed, fore-edge of boards bumped with corresponding scrape on edge of text block); original dust jacket (rubbed, scuffed, a few short marginal tears and small chips, lower edge of jacket at spine and rear panel dampstained).
FIRST EDITION. This gritty crime novel is the basis of the Cape Fear films (1962, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, directed by J. Lee Thompson; 1991, starring Nick Nolte and Robert DeNiro and directed by Martin Scorsese).