Night of the Hunter

by Davis Grubb

$2,500 · Offered by Royal Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication, probably in a bar: To John Milton / Gentleman and scholar / Wm Shakspear sic Davis Grubb / Feb 7, 1954. Basis for the legendary 1955 film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.A hint of offsetting to the endpapers, some rubbing to the top and bottom board

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