Hammett Dashiell Lillian Hellman (40 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. GGA {Good Girl Art} NUDE Girl Painted Cover By Stanley Melzoff (illustrator). Second Edition. 178 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " >> This is a reading copy! Cover creasing; 1" paper tear to front cover & first few pages, BUT story is not effected. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

broché. Condition: Très bon.

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. Adams Illustrated Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 219 pages. "Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid." C Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. ADAMS Cover art! (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 196 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " >>Cover creasing; wear to bottom of paper spine; glue residue to title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Jason Kelly Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. THE MALTESE FALCON = 196 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " /// THE THIN MAN = 199 - 375 pages. >>Cover scuffing; store stamp to interior backcover. minor cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Printing. NY, Random House, 1966 Third Printing 355 pages Selected Stories and Short Novels. A very good book with light wear and light dust soiling, in a good dust jacket with small repaired tearsand edge wear, light dust soiling. A nice reading copy. See Photos bx 39 S.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, near fine. Contains five novels by Hammett.

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD Minus. Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. Introduction Lillian Hellman ; 240 pages. " His home base is the Continental Detective Agency in San Francisco - his field of operations, the globe. His prey-for-pay is a weird assortment of murders & masterminds, high-class crooks 7 low-down punks, in capers filled with flying bullets, fabulous broads, tantalizing mystery & point-black action." >> Cover crease; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book club edition: no price on the dust jacket and a small square indenture base of the rear cover. First Printing stated. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist from reading or improper shelving. No bumped corners. No broken hinges. Pages are tight clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. A slight tobacco odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket shows very light wear, no sun fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1966 hardcover stated 1st printing . Sunning on dj spine, light edgewear and soil on dj, sunning on edge of cover, top edge dyed green, a bit of tanning, you can tell if you go into the spine that the previous owner was a smoker, else text clean, binding tight .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lillian Hellman(Editor) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett (Book Club Edition) A firm copy with fading to the top of the spine and bumping to the corners. Spine fade and 1-1/4 inch closed tear and rubbing to spine ends. Price-clipped. Clear protective cover. States, "First Printing." A book in the Big Knockover series. Intro. and Edited by Lilliam Hellman playwright of The Children's Hour. BOOK.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears. 1966 Hard Cover. xxi, 355 pp. Edited with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman. "Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid." CONTENTS: Introduction; The Gutting of Couffignal; Fly Paper; The Scorched Face; This King Business; The Gatewood Caper; Dead Yellow Women; Corkscrew; Tulip; The Big Knockover; $106000 Blood Money.

PARIS, NRF / Gallimard - 12 Juin 1968 - Br.18x11,5x1,3 cm - Couverture blanche et noire titrée en blanc et jaune; tranches jaunes; 184 et (8) pages. (Collection Série Noire - N° 1028, sous la direction de Marcel Duhamel). Bon état. PREMIÈRE ÉDITION dans la collection: 1205 titres au catalogue. Français Livres.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Cloth in DJ; 355pp; DJ price-clipped, slightly edgeworn & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Selected stories and short novels of Dashiell Hammett. Edited and with an Introduction by Lillian Hellman.

(1996). First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine photo-pictorial dust jacket. This is the book that biographers of Hellman and Hammett have been trying to write for twenty years."--Richard Layman. "Stunning dual biography.not to be missed."--Deirdre Bair. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated.

1st UK ed. Edited & introduced by Lillian Hellman. Foxing on end papers & page fore-edge; small damp stain on rear end paper; dust jacket a little worn & damp-stained Used - Good. Good hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. Dashiell Hammett short story omnibus, Introduced and edited by Lillian Hellman. The stories are:- The Gutting of Couffignal, Fly Paper, The Scorched Face, This Kings Business, The Gatewood Caper, Dead Yellow Women, Corkscrew, Tulip, The Big Knockover & $106,000 Blood Money. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with a little bumping of the book corners. Some rubbing of the book panels with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Fine foxing to the top textblock edge. Some creasing of the dustwrapper edges with a small chip to the top right-hand corner of the act strip. The laminate along the front edge of the front panel has started to lift. Handling marks and slight yellowing of the rear panel. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - XXI, [5], 5 - 355, [5] pages, pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Short Stories; Inventory No: 0128535.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hoot Von Zitzewitz (DJ design) (illustrator). None Stated. A 1st printing (stated) of a mid 1960s collection of Hammett's stories & short novels - The Gutting of Couffignal, Fly Paper, The Scorched Face, This King Business, The Gatewood Caper, Dead Yellow Woman, Corkscrew, Tulip, The Big Knockover, & $106,000 Blood Money. No edition indicated. The DJ is unpriced however there is no blind stamp on the rear cover that would definitively indicate a book club edition. Black cloth with gold lettering. Damp stain at the bottom of the spine of the DJ that only shows from the inside. It does not penetrate to the book. Light edge wear to the DJ. The interior is clean and tight. A very good copy.

Black Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Xxiii, 355 Pp Plus A Short Biographical Sketch At End. Black Cloth, Gilt. Reprint (Book Club Edition). Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Just A Touch Of Rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Head of spine bumped and slightly faded, bottom corners bumped. Jacket edge-worn, frayed at corners and extremities of spine, not price-clipped.

First edition. Octavo hardcover; quarter bound blue papered boards with dark blue cloth spine and gilt spine titling; 872pp., b&w plates, untrimmed page edges. Mild spotting to text block edges. Very good to near fine in like dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Dependent upon Lillian Hellman's writing income at the close of his life after drinking and wenching himself into literary and sexual impotence, Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon, has survived as an artist while she is remembered as a self-loathing liar. A compulsive fantasist in such late-life memoirs as Pentimento, from which the film Julia was made, Hellman (1905-1984) outlived her turbulent and romanticized intimacy with Hammett (1894-1961), creator of hard-boiled private-eye fiction, and even outlasted her reputation for the realistic melodramas (The Little Foxes) that Hammett coached her in composing. When Hellman died, she was even more unlikable than in her glory days as hit playwright and parlor radical of the 1930s and 1940s. Mellen evokes a "she-Hammett" (the term is irritatingly overused) who boozed and whored and talked tough in imitation of her sometime lover, but neither one of the pair compels much empathy as the drinking and the infidelities and the devotion to Stalinism pile up, while the narrative weaves in and out of fixable time. Yet the years matter little. The subjects' exhibitionistic literary and showbiz coteries on both coasts remain tiresomely self-indulgent. Of her image-enhancing fabrications, the aged Hellman would boast to a friend: "That's what writing is for." Mean, dishonest, insecure and possessive, Hellman comes off much worse than Hammett, who went to prison during the McCarthy years, served hitches in both world wars and fashioned elegantly spare tough-guy novels. Morally insolvent, the pair are viewed unsentimentally yet sympathetically in Mellen's carefully researched account of their lives." - Publisher's Weekly.

OLwd. m. OU u. Orig.-Bauchbinde. 8°, 413 S. Tadellos. EA dieser «Diogenes Sonderband[s]» (gemäss Bauchbinde). Das Vorwort gefolgt von 10 Erzählungen (übersetzt von Harry Rowohlt, Hellmuth Karasek u. a.).

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition/FIRST PRINTING. STATED FIRST PRINTING. BK RATES FINE COND WITH ABSOLUTELY NO MARKINGS. STUNNING BRIGHT GOLD GILT LETTERING AND DESIGN ON SPINE. D/J HAS 4 VERY SMALL CLOSE TEARS AND MINOR RUBBING. GREAT STORIES FROM THE CREATOR OF THE MODERN SUSPENSE NOVEL. CONTENTS INCL; INTRO, GUTTING OF COUFFIGNAL, FLY PAPER, SCORCHED FACE, THIS KING BUSINESS, GATEWOOD CAPER, YELLOW WOMEN, CORKSCREW, TULIP, BIG KNOCKOVER, $106,000 BLOOD MONEY. 335. pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

First Edition. Short stories by the master of noir fiction A little light foxing and water marking to edges and a water stain to the dustjacket flap otherwise a VG+ copy in a VG unclipped jacket with no tears or chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Publishers black cloth with bright silver spine stamping. Green top stain little faded, NEAR FINE in price clipped dust wrapper with dime sized laminate flaw to rear panel, one tiny edge tear.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. First edition. First edition. A pristine, virtually as new example in equally fine, bright crisp, unfaded dust jacket. Hardcover. xxi+355 pp. Superb collection of works by creator of the modern suspense novel, prefaced by a moving and sympathetic personal memoir by Hamett's close friend Lillian Hellman.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 355 pp; Ex Lib with minor losses accordingly but overall Good to Very Good.