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SPILLANE, Mickey (1918-2006). Kiss Me, Deadly. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1952. 8vo. 251, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's full red cloth, spine stamped in silver, publisher's unclipped (“$2,50") dust jacket (cloth spine a bit sunned, light rubbing to binding, previous owner's embossed stamp on ffep.; jacket spine a bit toned, some edgewear, small chips and tears to jacket). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THE SIXTH MIKE HAMMER NOVEL. The basis of the influential 1955 film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Ralph Meeker, and the debut of Cloris Leachman.