GRESHAM, William Lindsay (1909 - 62). Nightmare Alley. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1946. Publisher?s green cloth with titles in gilt and dark green, green top edge; original dust jacket (chips and small losses at extremities, toning to spine). 8vo. Pages uniformly browned. The first and most successful of Gresham?s novels, Nightmare Alley was adapted into a major motion picture in 1947 and again in 2021; the latter was nominated for four Oscars at the 94th Academy Awards. Gresham claimed the genesis of the novel came from conversations he had with a former carnival worker while they served as volunteers with Loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.