Marihuana

NY: Dell Publishing Company, [1951]. Saddle-stapled in pictorial wraps, 6-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. [64]pp. Horizontal creasing up the spine; light edge wear; textblock moderately toned. Very good or better.

First stand-alone edition of a pseudonymous story by Cornell Woolrich, originally appearing in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1941. A lowlife's killer instincts are roused when his buddies get him high as a joke; good clean pulp. Cover painting by Bill Fleming. No. 11 in the Dell 10¢ series.