After-Dinner Story (Armed Services Edition, S-20)

(n.p.): Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.. Very Good. (c.1944). First Edition Thus. Softcover. [good sound copy, moderately worn, with some miscellaneous creasing to the front cover, vertical crease in rear cover, slight fading to the spine and typical age-toning to the pages]. Six stories by one of the masters of pulpish paranoia: "After-Dinner Story"; "The Night Reveals"; "An Apple a Day"; "Marihuana"; "Rear Window" (basis for the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film); and "Murder-Story." The hardcover edition, with identical content, was published by J.B. Lippincott in 1944. The ASEs, designed to fit in the pocket of a soldier's uniform, were widely distributed to U.S. service members during World War II. . (Inventory #: 29917)