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HIGHSMITH, Patricia (1921-1995). The Snail-Watcher and other stories. [Introduction by Graham Greene]. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1970. 8vo. 177 pp. Publisher's full black cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher's unclipped (“$4.95") dust jacket (cloth spine lightly rubbed; jacket spine lightly toned, rubbed, light rubbing, faint soiling and creasing to jacket panels). Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS, INCLUDING TWO EDGAR-NOMINATED STORIES (The Snail-Watcher and The Terrapin (both stories being partially autobiographical)). Highsmith is most famous for her creation of Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955) and her novel, Strangers on a Train (1950, adapted into film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951).