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GRESHAM, William Lindsay (1909–1962). Nightmare Alley. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, 1946. Publisher's lime cloth, title in gilt; unclipped dust-jacket (light wear at corners and edges). 8vo. Second printing, with a laid-in typed signed letter from the author, two pages, 19 April 1960, on his personal letterhead, to John Henry Grossman. Gresham asks what knowledge Grossman may have regarding luminous liquids and compounds that may have been in use by the medium Daniel Home in the mid-19th century. Signed “Bill." With the mailing envelope. Provenance: John Henry Grossman (bookplates). The first and most successful of Gresham's novels, Nightmare Alley was adapted into a major motion picture in 1947 and again in 2021; the latter was nominated for four Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards.