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McBAIN, Ed (1926-2005). King’s Ransom. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
8vo. Original black cloth-backed brown boards, spine stamped in white (light rubbing, sunning to board edges, text toned, sticker residue on rear pastedown); original dust jacket (spine a bit sunned, some rubbing, mild marginal creasing, soiling to panels).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY McBAIN on the title-page. This crime novel about a botched kidnapping is the basis for the classic Japanese film noir, High and Low (1963) starring Toshiro Mifune and directed by Akira Kurosawa.