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"'Nightmare Alley' begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek--alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision--going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him."--Goodreads. Movie tie-in edition. Assumed First Triangle Books Edition: June 1948. In Very Good condition. Cover boards show Moderate-to-Heavy wear/rubbing; possible burn mark on front cover board. Damage to the bottom of the spine. Previous owner has written their name in pencil on front end-page. Spine is hollow.
- Format: Hardback
- Author: Gresham, William Lindsay
- Condition: Very Good
- Publisher: Triangle Books
- Publication Year: 1948