KISS TOMORROW GOOD-BYE: A NOVEL - INSCRIBED McCoy, Horace Books Into Film,Mystery & Detective

First Printing. Octavo (21cm); taupe cloth, blocked and titled in black and white on spine and front cover; dark grey topstain; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-372,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front endpaper: "For Lucile Coleman / with best wishes / Horace McCoy / May, 1948." Hint of sunning to spine and upper board edges, spine ends gently nudged, with a faint, shallow stain affecting the left edge of the rear endpaper and a few terminal leaves; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped (by the publisher), showing a hint of sunning to spine panel, modest external wear, with a few tiny nicks and small tears, and two strips of tape reinforcement to the spine ends on verso; Very Good+. McCoy's fourth novel, centered around a sadistic and amoral gangster who breaks out of prison, gets involved with the sister of another prisoner, crooked cops, blackmail, and a string of armed robberies. Basis for Gordon Douglas's 1950 film noir, shot in Chino and Glendale, California, which starred James Cagney, Barbara Payton, and Helena Carter. Hubin, p.260; Selby, Dark City 221.