DESERT PASSAGE.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. The uncommon hardcover issue. Green boards stamped in red. Light rubbing to spine tips, page edges yellowed, else fine. Yellow jacket has a bit sunned spine; fingernail size chip to lower inner corner of front panel and spine corner; shallow chips to head of spine; one inch edge tear to front panel; light dust soiling to panels; VG otherwise. A western novel from the period when Ballantine was doing mostly paperback originals, with a small more or less simultaneous issue in hardcover.; Octavo