HIGHSMITH, Patricia (1921?1995). Strangers on a Train. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. 8vo. Original publisher?s blue cloth with stamped logo (toning, ex-library markings, evidence of old adhesive on endpapers); dust jacket (creasing along extremities, top edge trimmed, vertical crease at front hinge). FIRST EDITION. An immediate success upon publication, it was optioned to be adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock shortly after, with the film adaptation ultimately released a little over a year after the book was published. Though Raymond Chandler is credited as a screenwriter, he had in fact been fired shortly after submitting a second draft of his screenplay and none of his work was used in the final product; his name appeared in the credits in the hopes of gaining additional publicity. Strangers on a Train would go on to be nominated for three Academy Awards.