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hardcover. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. First Edition. ISBN: 0156654865, Trade paperback, 1st printing, Very Good Plus/pictorial wraps; remainder mark to bottom edge, trace of wear and rubbing to covers, light creasing to top front corner, book features Ed McBain and includes such other authors as Tony Hillerman and Ron Goulart, 8vo., 227 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tight and clean in Jacket without tears. Remainder mark on bottom.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book has faint rubbing to covers, light bumps and scuffs to edges, a tiny tear to top edge of back cover, a small black mark to top textblock. otherwise in great condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked pages; an overall sturdy, attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Interior is excellent. very good cover. x library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Carroll & Graf, New York [Published date: 2001. Hard cover, 172 pp. First Carroll & Graf Edition, 2001. Very good in very good dust jacket. Cream and maroon paper over boards have light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] Hollywood scrccnwriter and high-flying author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man ? died in 1961. For the more than forty years since, his daughter, Jo Hammett, has kept her silence. Now, for the first time, with profound admiration as well as uncompromising candor, she tells her side of the Dashiell Hammett story. In Jo Hammett?s earliest recollections, although her already famous father exists outside the sphere of the daily life she shares with her mother and sister, he writes to Jo frequently and visits when he can. Jo?s memories of him are golden: She recalls a trip to the Santa Anita racetrack in a chauffeur-driven limousine, where Hammett plays more on the horses than he can afford; she recalls a Depression-era excursion to Beverly Hills and a splurge that would have supported an entire family for a month?on a riding outfit. With more ambivalence, she remembers the 1950s, when she assumes her responsibility as the sole designated correspondent with her blacklisted, imprisoned father and her role as go-between for him and Lillian Hellman. The notorious Hammett-Hellman romance, Dash?s rude flirtations, his heavy drinking, his attraction to Communism, his quirks and betrayals and paternal love?Jo Hammett neither blinks at her father?s faults nor diminishes his humanity. In straightforward prose, with unaffected charm, she offers in this generously illustrated volume a revealing personal reminiscence that contributes immeasurably to Hammett biography.

Soft cover. Condition: New. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; RARE PUBLISHERS COPY FOR REVIRW WITH DOC PHOTOS EMAILEDPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. Ex-library copy with blind stamp on title page and withdrawn ink stamp on copyright page. Light label residue on spine corner of front cover. Otherwise very good. ; This volume only.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Counterpoint, Washington DC, 2001.FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Pristine. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Unread. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Volume 1 only. Includes the authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

First edition Fine and bright in fine dustjacket (light fading to spine) with crisp text throughout. Illustrated with photographs. Highly attractive throughout.

paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: HBJ/Harvest, New York, 1986.FINE Softcover in illustrated wraps, as issued. Stories by Dashiell Hammett, Irvin Faust, James Lee Snyder, Robert Sampson, William Haggard, George Sims, and James Ellroy. First Edition, First Printing. Remainder mark, otherwise as new.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped. In a Mylar Dj cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc., 1991. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1991 First Edition. Volume Five (Vol. 5) Late Victorian and Edwardian Writers, 1890-1914. Illustrated with portraits, rare photos, dust jacket, title page and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Contains 21 bio-bibliographies including Barrie, Churchill, Conrad, Doyle, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Saki, AE, Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde, Yeats and 8 more. Entries have been updated from the DLB [Dictionary of Literary Biography]. Bound in the original green cloth stamped in bright gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. xv, 434pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc., 1991. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1991 First Edition. Volume Seven (Vol. 7), Writers after World War II 1945-1960. Illustrated with portraits, photos, dust jacket, title page and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Contains bio-bibliographies of 25 authors including Amis, Beckett, Behan, Durrell, Fleming, Golding, Greene, Lowry, Orwell, Rhys, Sitwell, Snow, Spark, Spender, Thomas, and 10 others. Entries have been updated from the DLB [Dictionary of Literary Biography]. Bound in the original green cloth stamped in bright gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 435pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Crisp, unread copy. Remainder mark on bottom page edges, else fine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Short biographies of 48 authors, 442 pages. Fine, as new condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. some spine creasing and small crease on front cover, general handling wear. a collection of new stories from modern and classic masters of crime writing. Includes Dashiell Hammetts original story, After the Thin Man, plus stories by Simenon, James Ellroy, George Sims, Jeffry Scott and many more. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1992 First Edition. Volume Three (Vol. 3), Writers of the Romantic Period 1789-1832. Illustrated with portraits, title page and manuscript facsimiles, etc. Contains 15 bio-bibliographies: Austen, Blake, Burns, Byron, Carlyle, Coleridge, De Quincey, Godwin, Keats, Lamb, Scott, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth. Entries have been updated from the DLB [Dictionary of Literary Biography]. Bound in the original green cloth stamped in bright gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. xv, 468pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc, 1991. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Volume Six [Vol 6] : Modern Writers, 1914-1945. Contains illustrated bio-bibliographies of 24 authors: Auden, Brooke, Cary, Chesterton, Christie, Coward, de la Mare, Ford, Forster, Graves, Huxley, Joyce, Lawrence, Maugham, O'Casey, Owen, Priestley, Sayers, Shaw, Tolkien, Waugh, Wells, Wodehouse, Woolf. Entries have been updated from the DLB [Dictionary of Literary Biography]. Bound in the original green cloth stamped in bright gold over black panels on the spine and front cover. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for international shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv, 480pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 650 pp., b/w photos, remainder mark on lower edge. In his five great crime novels, all of them written in a magnificent burst of creativity between 1927 and 1935, Dashiell Hammett gave America a cast of immortal characters. His letters to his family, lovers, and colleagues show his personal warmth, his political commitment, his wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. With wit, intelligence, and style, these letters further confirm Hammett's extraordinary talent as writer and observer.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 848 pages. 9.13x7.00x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. book club edition edition. 256 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 848 pages. 9.13x7.00x1.34 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first printing with the full number line present. Hardcover quarter bound in black cloth and brown boards. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small rubs to the jacket's corners. Shipping weight is three pounds. Additional shipping charges will apply to international orders.

Waterville: Thomson Gale:, 2003. Uncorrected proof, Spiral bound, Fine, 346 pp. Spiral bound proof issued prior to release of the book itself. Just as useful as the book itself and a much more difficult find. Uncorrected proof, Spiral bound, Fine,