Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1946

8vo, pp. 258. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket, author’s photographic portrait to rear panel. Offsetting to endpapers, gilt to spine faded. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping and loss to spine ends, and long closed tear to front fold.

‘First reprint edition’, INSCRIBED BY CAIN TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION: ‘To: Helen Sisa With best regards James M. Cain Los Angeles Calif March 15, 1946’.

The three novels collected here are Serenade (1937), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Mildred Pierce (1941).