JAMES M. CAIN. — Three of a Kind. Three novellas.

Robert Hale Ltd., London [1943]., 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 288pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at spine. A little light wear to the cloth at several extremities, and a minor slant to the binding. Book Society bookplate to the front free endpaper. Printed on fairly cheap wartime paperstock, yet still a nice bright copy in nicked, chipped, torn and dust marked non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper with several small portions of loss to head and base of spine panel. An eight-page preface by the author, followed by the novellas 'Career in C Major', 'The Embezzler' and the highly influential 'Double Indemnity', adapted into a noir classic by Billy Wilder the following year., Good, Good