Shorts. Excellent copy in very good jacket.
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...the Continental Op features in seven superb stories in this collection. Please, dear reader, I beg you, buy this book and treat yourself to the work of a true master of the crime genre. (Vincent Banville IRISH TIMES)
Orion's magnificent Crime Masterworks series ...has collected seven of the finest Continental Op short stories in a single volume... It is a magnificent collection, marking year zero in the hard-boiled school of crime fiction... Hugely recommended. (BURTON EVENING MAIL)
'Some of the best examples of Hammett's work, painting a bleak picture of an American society warped by brutality, greed and treachery.' (WESTERN DAILY PRESS)
'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves
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Seller: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, pages tanned, spine ends rubbed, otherwise VG in VG dustjacket with creasing at spine ends. Seller Inventory # 011521
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Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover - first UK edition. Plastic protected and unclipped jacket with a little shelfwear. Tanning to the page block and page edges. Foxing to the edges of the endpapers. The binding is sound and all text is clear. Edited and with an introduction by Steven Marcus. CM. Used. Seller Inventory # 541664
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