Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, First Edition (134 results)

Condition: New. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136. T. 2012. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. 2000. 1st Edition. hardcover. As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency the author knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, the author 'gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it', as Raymond Chandler said. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 720. . . . . .

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Soft cover. Condition: Good -. Adams Illustrated Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 188 pages. "Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover and boss, has disappeared. Everyone is after him, but Nick is not convinced Wynant is the murderer - and when he finds a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns in his bedroom, it's only the beginning of his troubles." >>This is a reading copy. Cover creasing; cover scuffing; Tape to upper & lower covers; 1" split to lower covers & spine. staining to right edge of book. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. Adams Illustrated Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 188 pages. "Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover and boss, has disappeared. Everyone is after him, but Nick is not convinced Wynant is the murderer - and when he finds a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns in his bedroom, it's only the beginning of his troubles." >>Cover creasing; cover scuffing; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Condition: Good. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (24cm by 16cm), v, 233pp. Original white cloth spine, white boards, dustwrapper. Slight bumping to the upper corners of the boards, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9780802120502.

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.

Paperback. first combined edition. v-255 good - very good, creases paperback,

Paperback. 1st ed. trade paperback size, near fine.

Paperback. first edition thus. 8719 very good paperback,

Paperback. first combined edition. v-255 very good, creases paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition Pbk. 1966 Dell first printing paperback; rare item; Good; clean inside, lightly scuffed covers, solid binding but first couple of pages loosening; World-famous detective novel featuring Nick Charles, first thus; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Paperback. first edition thus. 8719 very good - fine, crease paperback,

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint.

Paperback. first edition thus. 8719 near fine, unread paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (letter line to a) of an omnibus edition collecting five of Hammett's novels - Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, & The Thin Man. No DJ. Blue cloth boards eighth bound in dark blue with gold lettering & decoration over a green background. Minimal wear. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

paperback. VG mass market paperback. First printing of this edition January, 1951. Introduces Nick & Nora Charles.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Reading Copy. [1st printing, July 1966; #8719. Cover art by Adams. Creased; edhe and corner nicks and wear; tears at spine heel; tanning; scarring iside cover; # in pen on rear. Reading copy.

Trade paperback. First edition. 184 p. Very good. light shelfwear, first printing.

mass market paperback. first thus. Dell 8719 188pp. first printing July 1966. #00439. good: sticker residue, cover crease near spine, edge and corner wear.

2012 Hammett, Dashiell RETURN OF THE THIN MAN Edited Richard Layman and Julie Rivett NY: Mysterious Press, c2012 first printing 233pp 8vo new hardcover in d/j.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mysterious Press/ Head of Zeus, New York / London. 2012. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 233 pp 8vo. In these three novellas, the author brought back his classic characters, retired private investigator Nick Charles and his former debutante wife Nora, who return home to find Nora's family gardener murdered, pulling the couple back into another deadly game of cat and mouse. Hammett has written three fully satisfying "Thin Man" stories, with classic, barbed Hammett dialogue and fully developed characters. They are After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, and Sequel to the Thin Man which were written for movies, but never published in print form. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of subscription issue. 8vo, brown cloth. No jacket, as issued, in slipcase. Prospectus laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4rh Printing. Protected jacket and covers in very good shape, minimal edge wear, price intact, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. Newspaper stain on the flyleaf, where a previous owner's name has been whitened out. This is the fourth printing of a collected edtion of Hammett's novels published in 1965. Note that this is NOT a book club edition, which is very inferior in terms of covers, binding, and quality of the paper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Harry Bennett (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 233 p. 24 cm. The original screen stories. Box number: GR0084 ; 1st printing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6.25 x 4", glossy pict wraps, 229pp + pub. ads, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped a little, spine cocked, contents nice and clean and bright. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Pocket Book #196.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. CONDITION: Book: New, Slipcase: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 128 p. Square, sound clean copy. Close to Near Fine condition. Scarce this condition.