Lyons Press Lanham Md (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. The binding is tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. $25.95 Publishers Cover Price, B/W Illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Thin vertical surface "exacto" cut to a portion of front cover, likely from when a new carton of copies was opened, otherwise new/as issued. 1st ptg. xiv,202 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 8vo, 201 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket). Illus. with photos (illustrator).

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. Lanham, MD: Lyons Press. Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. (2020). . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 470 pp. . Black & White Photographs (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. James M. Cain was among the prominent member of the "hard-boiled" school of writing that characterized the 1930s and 1940s, one of the masters of the genre that included Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His novels became such popular film noir classics as The Postman always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, and his 1937 novel Serenade boldly portrayed its hero as a bisexual. Cain also taught journalism at various colleges in Maryland, wrote editorials for the New York World, and was for a brief time managing editor at The New Yorker. This is the first biography of James M. Cain written with the full cooperation of the late novelist's family. Record # 377863.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. at 430.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The book is inscribed by Robert Florczak in green pen on the half title page. Due to the size and weight of this book, it cannot be shipped priority mail or outside the United States. Inscribed by Author(s).

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 153pp. Dustjacket covered in plastic. b/w ills & a map. Very good copy. 1st ed. In the early years of the United States, many people hid their precious possessions at home as banks were far less stable than now. Many buried Civil War treasures have since been unearthed.